Melinda Howard tells PEOPLE her hand was “really swollen and looked bad" Meredith Wilshere is a Society and Culture writer at PEOPLE. Her work has previously appeared on PS, Stylecaster, Business ...

Melinda Howard’s medical ordeal started with a paper cut on her hand. Two weeks later, she was in urgent care where she was prescibed three forms of antibiotics to fight an alarming infection. “It was ...