I don't even know how I discovered Austen's page. I have zero interest in the military/navy. Yet I'm here because I think his content is interesting. I watched one video and subscribed right away. For once, the KZfaq algorithm actually did something right.

Just wanna say that I can relate to the story. My brother ended up getting MRSA from work and waited to long to receive medical attention, and by the time he had it was too late and his MRSA ended up becoming advanced CRE. The IV antibiotics didn't work either, and he ended up passing due to his body shutting down and the severity of the infection having infected his whole body. I happened upon this video, but honestly glad that I did. You probably get this a lot, but thanks for telling this story and also for your service as well as honesty. God bless and God speed.

Keep copies of all your medical documentation. It will help you greatly with the Veterans Administration when you get out. Nobody will tell you this while you're still on active duty BUT the burden of proof necessary for VA benefits is absolutely unbelievable. Copy everything, scan it and save it to a 65 gig thumb drive. Twenty or thirty years from now you will be glad you did.

I also had MRSA and I turned septic. You are one lucky son of a gun that you made it through without permanent damage. glad you didn't lose your leg.

Advice to future recruits, don’t pop your knee pimples lol. In boot camp the guy to the left of me had swine flu and the one on the right had pneumonia. I had a strong immune system but still got pink eye from them making us hand out everyone’s shit stained underwear.

Won me over with this one. I've been there man. Now I carry an infection the rest of my life most likely.

Oh shit MRSA is serious! over crowding and lack of handwashing and surfaces not cleaned enough.

I know I’m young, but I recently discovered your channel and it’s making me want to join the Navy. It seems like such an amazing travel opportunity, I’d have a life, and I’d get to serve the country that I love.

I almost had my head caved in working a jet once. It was awesome. The "bullet" on an F-15 is about 3' long, only weighs like 25lbs, and looks like a bullet. However, it's at the top of the vert, basically the highest point on the jet. Some dipshit dropped it from the high point and I was below it. It hit my elbow, which was about 6" from my head at the time. After it hit me, it put a hole in the concrete. Somehow it didn't break my arm, but the ER couldn't stop the bleeding. Two torniquets and four hours later, I was somewhat good. My uniform was covered in blood. Worst part about it was it happened at the end of shift on a Friday, and I was going TDY the next week. I told them if it wasn't broken that I'm good, and I would deal with it because I was not missing that TDY! Haha.

Did you thank God afterwards? ;) Wow! As a RN, MRSA is no joke. Glad you were okay.

Moral of the story: wash your hands! Glad you're doing well now

Man you should start a podcast! Hell of a good speaker, that story was beyond good.

I had a similar experience and spent 11 long days in hospital being told they might have to amputate my leg at any time. It's a frightening experience.

The corporals be like “walk it off”

I'm glad you're good Austen! SO the lesson here kids, say something from the get go! Had you done so, you probably would have gotten some antibiotics and Tylenol and would have been able to finish and grad with your division.

Next time... whenever u have open wounds be careful! Be sure to address it right away before it harbor infection.... always remember this Austen, prevention is better than cure🤗

Thank you for ur service 🥳

That’s crazy dude gotta hear some more stories

Wow Austen that is a blessing to not have gotten your leg cut off.

I remember during my boot camp it was the cleanest and dirtiest period of my life. personal hygiene inspection was almost conducted daily. and squad bay was fully swept and mapped and disinfected every week. Its boot camp so... yeah we get dirty

My scariest time is between 2 different situations. The first was a helicopter crash on a night raid, the second would be having arty shoot short rounds during a training op.

I am glad you pulled through 🙏👍

Wow man! That’s some scary shit!

You need to be a model or an actor you so cute thanks for your service

That's a scary fucking story, God Bless you

After I have Boot Camp at great lakes, and I was still a great lakes going to be BDoubleE, I got Pneumonia and spent three days at the hospital there at great lakes. They treated me very well.

Thank God you recovered back then

Because I'm a nurse with over 30 years of experience and have had MRSA, your story both horrified and angered me. I have heard of too many people in this exact spot, whether military or not, that ignored the symptoms of an infection due to various reasons. I get it, I was military also and wanted so much to graduate boot camp (Army). I also had problems with pneumonia during boot camp and was scared that I wouldn't graduate. But back to the reason for my post. MRSA and/or various types of staph infections are no joke. We had people coming back from Afghanistan with MRSA. When they first got to the hospital, they were put into isolation and stayed there until they got cleared and had crazy amounts of IV antibiotics. Some did lose limbs because of it and we nurses tried really hard not to get them to that point. So people really need to look out for staph infections and try to prevent them by going to get things checked out before they get to the point of almost losing a leg (Austen). Really, though, I'm glad you made it out okay. And from your other videos, you really try and take care of yourself and educate people on healthy routines and diets. You've come a long way since this video and I commend you for doing them. Take care.

Thank you for your videos, and service!

The SAME thing almost happened to me. I almost lost my leg from mrsa when I was a freshman. I was in algebra after day of ignoring severe pain in my right knee - and I go to get up to turn a paper in, and I couldn’t walk. I automatically burst into tears and rolled my pant leg up and freaked out when I saw how swollen it was. I ended up going to my family doctor and he tried numbing my leg before lancing it but the infection was so deep in my knee, the numbing wouldn’t work. So I felt every single cut he made and scraping the inside of my knee to get the infection out. The doctor told me he would’ve had to amputate my leg from the knee down if I would’ve waited even one more day to come in. Scary stuff for sure. Oh and he said I probably got it from band camp. I guess I nicked my leg shaving and then going to camp around nasty sweaty kids made me get it is what he told me lol

What a horrible time was. Take care n be safe. Like the video page.

I just had these exact symptoms just 3 weeks ago. I didn't and don't know what happened. I still never was told what it was by the doctors. They just prescribed me an anti biotic. But same exact symptoms.

GOD has a plan for your life my friend ! GODBLESS

Good thing you are ok 👌

Nov 77 I had the pleasure of joining Uncle Sam's Yacht Club. I too, went to Great Lakes. During Service week, 2 days in I had got sick to my stomach. I didn't dare tell anyone for the reason as you said I didn't want to get set back. Anyway, the sickness would not go away. A Chief one morning told me I looked like a ghost and I broke down and told him I have been sick for a couple of days. He directed me to Sick call. It turned out I has Rubella German Measles. The doc said it was a allergic reaction from one of my shots I had received. After a week in the hospital, I w as s able to return to my Company. The training instructor told me if I could study all the lessons they had taken that week and pass the test, i would not get set back. So, at night a group of my fellow boots got together and tutored me and i passed. It goes to show you how working together in Bootcamp really paid off BIG TIME for me. I enjoy your videos. I was station on the Amphib Base in Coronado Ca. Seabees. ACB1

That’s nice talk and sound good an nice place

I had staff infection in my knee also and I popped my bump also .. and a alot of pus came out .... What I did was squeezed it until all the pus came out and I keep squeezing it hard until the pus (white/Yellow head) came out. And after the pus white/ yellow head came out . Blood followed and when I saw the blood .. I knew then I was ok .

yea man i had mrsa as well on my knee from boarding school in florida

Did you use a drone to film the air shots? So cool

Am glad you are ok

This is a Story about God safe Your Leg🙏

Yep I know that felting I had surgery on my spine and the incision got infected. I had MSSA that the OR gave me I an still trying to get over it

MRSA was the first thing I thought of somewhere between "I popped it" and (the first) "2 or 3 days later..." It's some super serious 💩, man. I'm glad you came out on the right side of it. I had MRSA once about a decade or so ago. It was on my left side just below and behind my hip bone... and inline with my beltline/where my pants rested. And... much like yours...what started as a pimple-like bump was exacerbated, ultimately resulting in a large chunk of me being cut out, ckear down to the muscle....

It could have been flesh-eating disease. OR, if it got past your lymph nodes it could have turned into sepsis. You could easily have lost your leg or life. I met a guy, a fellow civilian, who lost a foot. Damn, if you'd seen a doctor the next day, when it got red around the area of the pimple you popped, you'd have had maybe 10 days. This time Navy damn near lost a great sailor, but now many sailors weren't that lucky. They need improved procedures/communications so someone in boot camp is not going to fear being put back to the next class for something really minor, like needing antibiotics. This isn't something particular to being in the military, it happens in the civilian world too. And especially men, especially young men, men hesitate to go to the doctor. And that happens even up here in Canada where we have universal medicare for all, and the doctors are "free" (taxpayer paid).

Before I watch the rest of the video. He popped a bump on his leg. My guess:staph infection

Did you end up finishing boot camp with your division ?

Sister had STAPH and MRSA in each leg/foot. She lost toes on both feet. She is a Type 2 diabetic. bad neuropathy. The Doc did some scrubbing of the wound without any lidocaine. She has no feeling from knee down.

I had a similar incident in the Army, I was in the infantry and I got a cut on my knee that got infected. My lymph nodes in my groin were so swollen they thought at first I had multiple hernias. In boot camp did you still sing anchors away when you marched under the tunnel from one side of the base to the other?

Thank God, he did it

how did an antibiotic resistant infection get cured by antibiotics????

Austen you are looking very handsome man looking sharp 😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘

I’m never popping a pimple again.

"Only 2 out of 90 of us got MRSA" BRO THATS MORE THAN 2% WTF!!!

Experience to make you to be a teacher. Good your career. Good.

Scares story u have thank to god to safe

You got blessed

Thanks for your insight my son is leaving tonight

The other bacteria you talked about is in people's hair. The staph

Is AA jack reacher???

Omgggggg I had the same experience or well kinda similar I’m not in the military but I popped a pimple on my leg turned into an abscess but it took me like a week to finally meet a doctor and get antibiotics because health care I don’t have any but oof boi I have not popped a pimple since 😩

Division 807 ? What was your original rate ? 800 divisions are usually the special program divisions

My unlucky a** would be one of the 2%

In a word! YOIKS!

Health weighs heavier than gold.

MA’s are in 800 divs?

Be careful

807??? Buds??? I was 806 in 2010

Hey man! We were on the same Ship!!

Austen are you a navy seal or a navy sailor? Are navy sailors less likely to die during there career in terms of warfare??

Seen much combat Austen?

How did you get mercer??? Under your fingernails??

Poor baby

A day w/o IV??

Long Beach 🥳💪

2012 I graduated with my Masters

God has performed and miricale He does answer prayers

So did u have Cellulitis or Spetic arthritis?

Did you graduate with your team?

Que chulo te ves

Hey we related

5 years??? Just a baby..

Sounds like an infx dude

A praying man!!

Lesson should be don't wait to see a doctor. And scrub your fingernails before popping any pimples.

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Staff infection is fucking real

MRSA so awful 😓

Wow

MANIPULATION!

because you pray God, and tell him, your problem and what you didnt want to lose your leg

There’s no doubt you are a fit bloke but come on this is hardly a horror story is it, you’re in the bloody navy man!

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Oh jesus fuck MRSA

are you a christian?