He eventually returned to the hospital, according to
WSAV, when he received startling news from osteopathic physician Dr. Fritz Brink at HCA Florida.
Brink told Adams he had necrotizing fasciitis, more commonly known as a flesh-eating bacteria.
The disease enters through a break in the skin, travels through the muscle sheath and destroys healthy tissue.
Brink immediately performed surgery to cut out the infected tissue in Adams' thigh, which the doctor believes came from the bite.
'A human bite is dirtier than a dog bite as far as the kinds of bacteria that grows,' said Brink. 'Normal bacteria in an abnormal spot can be a real problem.'
About 70 percent of the tissue in the front of Adams' thigh needed to be cut out, according to the
Tampa Bay Times.
'You're torn between being as aggressive as you can be to stop the infection from spreading and leaving as much tissue behind so that it won't take two years to heal,' Brink said.
Adams claims that had he not gone to the ER, 'there was a good chance I would've lost my leg' or gone into a potentially fatal septic shock.
'They assessed my wound and it was very horrific,' Adams remembered. 'It was unbelievable. But in my mind, I just had to get through whatever this was.'
Adams needed nearly three weeks to recover in the hospital but is in the middle of six months of treatment to fully heal.
He no longer has any functional problems but has a nasty, visible scar on his thigh from the surgery.
However, Adams has maintained a positive attitude about the entire process and owes his recovery to both doctors, as well as praying and meditating regularly.
'What you see now, you see not just a scar, but the beauty of the aftermath,' he said.
'I would've never imagined that a human bite would turn into something so horrific as a flesh-eating bacteria.'
My anatomy teacher was not lying when he said the mouth is the dirtiest part of the human body...
