Beauden (middle) with his mom (Juliana) and dad (Brian) in the hospital. SAN DIEGO - A 3-year-old Arizona boy is recovering after contracting a staph infection that forced him to have his legs and a few fingers amputated.Beauden Baumkirchner was on vacation with his family on Oct.
5 and scraped his knee while out riding his bike. It seemed like a harmless injury considering most toddlers tend to get scrapes and bumps every so often.
Unfortunately for the toddler, his injury was not ordinary.Juliana and Brian Baumkirchner, Beauden’s mom and dad, started to notice something strange happening with their son a day after his accident. “So we arrived on the fifth (of October), he fell on the fifth,” Juliana said.