the sea worm, a hope for severe burn victims

2024-04-05 15:00:00

According to doctors, Thomas could not survive his injuries. However, seven months after the terrible accident in which almost his entire body burned, the young man left the Kerpape rehabilitation hospital (Morbihan) alongside Laure, the woman of his life. Thomas is this patient with an extraordinary destiny, “the burn victim saved by marine worms” about whom the media talked so much in January 2024, without ever meeting him.

His story – which he agrees to entrust for the first time to the Point – is emblematic of the complex care of severe burn victims. Months of a fight against fate, punctuated by life-saving intuitions and a series of treatments and surgical operations which, as Thomas says, “saved his skin”.

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