Thursday night is my happy time. Between Missing and Person of Interest, I'm oh-so-thrilled. This week in particular, Missing made me squee. As I said to J, ( I love being right! )
Sweetie, having just seen my kid through a community-acquired staph infection that took five antibiotics to quell, I beg you to go to a walk-in doc and get that looked at ASAP. If it's staph, it can infect your bones and they'll have to do surgery. *HUGS*
I'll make some calls tomorrow. The last thing I want is to end up with flesh-eating bacteria or the like. I just hate spending a bunch of money to be lectured about my weight, which has happened before, regardless of whether my original concern was weight-related. "Got a headcold? You're too fat! A rash? Lose weight! Cross-eyed? Drop 50 pounds! That'll be a hundred dollars...plus lab tests." It's a racket!
Bacteria, apparently. I'd heard the word, and had the idea that it was a kind of sore, so I check WebMD, and there was a ramiliar-looking picture.
Because it's in an awkward spot, I had to snap a picture with my phone at arms' length to get a good look at it...but I'm sparing my f'list some gnarly visuals.
Don't be self-conscious and worry about the weight issue~ half of this country is overweight. I've never been to a walk-in clinic for an illness where that came up in conversation. My own family doctor doesn't bring that up in conversation unless I do. Just go.
A friend of mine just posted a photo of her elbow on FB~ covered in some weird rash-like thing.Looked to me like shingles (which I had a few years back) but her Target pharmacist told her it's a yeast infection. It's on both elbows, too. She had been working in her yard and the pharmacist said there are all kinds of bacteria in everything. She must have leaned down on something and it got into her skin. It's very weird~ that's why you have to have it tended to as there are so many new strains of things these days. There's no telling!
Yeah, usually I'd lance the darn thing myself, BUT after all the reading I've done, I know that's a terrific way to get blood poisoning, so I've resisted the urge. I do wish it would pop and take the pressure off, though....
I had a carbuncle once, on my upper lip. Painful AND disfiguring, until it ripened and then broke, at which point I was able to squeeze the goosh out. Keep it moist - a little ointment to keep the surrounding skin from drying out. And really, get some antibiotics; that'll take some of the length and intensity out of it.
Staph has gotten so drug-resistant in this country that it's hard to heal up now. Corgikid first saw someone in our family doc practice who does not usually treat him. That first antibiotic did not work and he got much worse (he had a huge boil inside his ear canal -- eeeehhhh!). He went back a few days later in great pain and sick as a dog, and our family doc gave him a shot of two different antibiotics, a sulfa drug, and antibiotic ear drops. That finally did the trick. She sent us a note that he had community-acquired MRSA, which she'd reported to the CDC.
Had we delayed treatment, there's a good chance he could have lost his hearing in that ear or gone into toxic shock syndrome. It was scary stuff.
Good thing Doc#2 was on the ball. Yeah, I'm definitely going to find a doctor to look this over. I don't scare easily, but I'm getting decidedly nervous.
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Because it's in an awkward spot, I had to snap a picture with my phone at arms' length to get a good look at it...but I'm sparing my f'list some gnarly visuals.
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It's times like this that I really wish that I lived in one of those countries that had a more permissive attitude about what drugs they'll sell OTC!
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Had we delayed treatment, there's a good chance he could have lost his hearing in that ear or gone into toxic shock syndrome. It was scary stuff.
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