WARNING, SOME GROSS PICS! NOT FOR THE FAINT OF HEART!
I just came back from a fabulously wonderful try to Maryland/D.C. It was just what I needed right now. I am going to blog about that very soon. But first I am going to get the complaining out of the way....
On my way home Monday at 5:30pm my plane was grounded for over an hour on the runway. Thunderstorms were moving in over Baltimore and in our pathway to Memphis, TN. I didn't bring anything to eat. Luckily the man next to me gave me his extra granola bar. We arrived in Memphis an hour and half late, by then my plane to Austin was long gone. Nothing else was going to Austin and they had a flight for me on a different airline the next morning. Delta put me up in a DoubleTree hotel. A shuttle would take me there, I shuttle would bring me back the next morning, I got a $100 credit to a future flight, and I had a voucher for a dinner and breakfast at the hotel. Sounds good right? Well, the shuttle was a 10 passenger van and there were 30 of us heading to the hotel which was 15 minutes away. It took me an hour to get to the hotel. I arrived at 10:00pm...the restaurant was closed, including room service, and would not open till 6:00am...my flight left at 6:50...and the hotel shuttle didn't start until 6:00am, so I had to call up a taxi. Good thing I had an extra package of cookies from the plane as my dinner. My bed at least was comfy and had internet. I was at the curb waiting for my taxi at 5:30, sharing it with another girl. I almost had a heart attack when he arrived at 5:50am, but luckily I arrived to a short security line and made my flight to Dallas. My breakfast was my second granola bar. Finally I arrived in Austin by 10:00am and in to work by 1:00pm.
To top it all off...this is what I came home with...
It is an infection on the back of my thigh. Possibly a staph infection (lab results pending). No clue how I got it. (Maryland friends not to blame, it started Friday before I arrived) It started as a tender bump on Friday. By Monday my was red, tender, swollen, and really really hurt after sitting on planes. After work I went to the urgent care clinic. Here they numbed me up, drained the wound, packed it, dressed it, and put me on antibiotics.
I can't remember the last time I wanted my mom so bad. I'm 30 for goodness sake! When they were about to put the needle in that would "pinch and burn" I wanted my mom next to me. And then my second thought was I wanted to call my favorite guy friend to have him distract me on the phone. But my mom is in Argentina, and my guy friend would probably have thought I was being a silly girl. I asked the nurse on a scale of 0-10 how bad was it going to hurt? She said, a lot. Gee thanks! It did hurt, a lot!
This is Day 1 right after it was drained. That is packing strips hanging out.
Today I had to return to have it looked at again. The doctor thinks the redness around it has not gone down, but I think it has. He repacked it and it really hurt again! I wanted to cry, and I still wanted to cry in the car on the way home. Let's pray it heals, and heals quickly! Come on antibiotics, do your thing!
Day Two before the re-packing ... the square is the print of the dressing put on it.
Day 2 with the new packing in and an outline to watch the redness.
4 comments:
I had one of these when Jed and I were dating. We named it Bonnie the Boil (since I moved to Bonnie Rd while we were dating). It was staph, but the antibiotics worked.
I hope you heal quickly, I know it is a lame thing to deal with. Be extra careful at the gym! I only got it once in 9 years of coaching.
Happy healing!
I hope this gets all healed up soon. You are coming to see me so it better.
I feel your pain. When I had my appendectomy, they couldn't put me on antibiotics after because I was pregnant and allergic to anything they could give me. My wound got infected, and they had to reopen it. I had to have Steve pack and unpack three times a day for almost two weeks, I cried nearly every time. Now I have a 2-inch long 1/2 inch wide scar across my stomach. Awe . . . the joy of infections.
OUCHY!!!!!!!!
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