Peter Atkinson is the kind of person who puts in long hours, especially since he started his own business in 2012.
Every other week he is on “duty” all day in North Wales, where he lives, ready to tow cars involved in crashes and any other vehicles in the borough. Atkinson, 49, often gets cuts on his hands as he hauls cars and trucks onto his rig, he said.
One of those lesions may have been the source of a flesh-eating bacteria that landed him in the hospital last month, required major surgery, and led to sepsis and kidney failure, Atkinson said on the phone Tuesday from his bed at Penn Medicine Doylestown Health…