eagerly anticipated leprosy update: it’s not leprosy, as those of you who follow me on twitter already know. It’s cellulitis - which is a fancy way of saying “some kind of skin infection.” The doc prescribed me a hefty antibiotic (horse pills! who takes these pills? giants! they are giant pills!) and told me to come back in a week if it hadn’t improved.
other unexpected health update: some good news - when I had my doctor’s appointment a couple weeks ago (kind of a half check up to get my thyroid levels checked), my blood pressure was INEXPLICABLY AND TERRIFYINGLY HIGH. I was COMPLETELY FREAKED OUT about this, because WHY? WHY???? Kev kept asking me if I was stressed about something. NO I AM NOT STRESSED WHY ARE YOU ASKING??? But seriously, I did some thinking about what was different over the past few weeks: my job. but my job was not stressful. What else? Well, at my job, I have free, unlimited access to coffee, tea, and pop. Ohhhh…maybe the 8-10 cups of coffee, tea, and diet dr pepper I’ve been drinking every day has made me OD on caffeine? Ya think?
So I started switching to the caffeine-free diet coke after lunch. So when I went in today, they took my blood pressure again. It was kind of funny, because when the nurse did it…she frowned and got quiet. Oh shit…”what? what’s my pressure?” “ummm…it’s fine…I’m getting 130/80…but I’m going to go get another cuff.” wtf? She came back in with another cuff and took it again. 130/80. I think they were expecting it to be SKY HIGH again. HA! Back to normal, baby!
But then came the bad news: The doctor took the opportunity to go over the results of the bloodwork and such from my appointment a couple weeks ago, since MY ditz of a doctor hadn’t bothered to call me with them. My cholesterol is high. Much higher than last time. Crap. This is what a year of unemployed lay-around-on-my-ass time does. HOPEFULLY now that I’m working again, moving around more, and eating better, it will go down, but in the meantime, he’s putting me on crestor.
CRESTOR! That’s an old person drug! I am not an old person!
Unacceptable. I will only be on this until my big physical in october. Then I will AMAZE MY DOC with my unbelieveably great cholesterol.
Err…just ignore that sausage mcmuffin I picked up for breakfast after I saw the doctor. I needed it for…umm…foot healing strength. yeah. yeah, that’s right. Foot healing…
OK, at least one person has asked to see my foot. It is after the jump. DO NOT CLICK “MORE” BELOW IF YOU DO NOT WANT TO SEE MY FOOT! It is not horrifying, but it’s not pretty either. So click at your own risk.
It’s pretty red all over, and my foot is still swollen. ewwww! see why I thought it was leprosy?
I apologize to my readers who get this via an rss reader. It appears you had no choice in the matter. Oops.
Totally gross!
YIKES!!! What happened??? Spider bite??
Ktb - thanks. yes it is.
Knit witch - see previous post!
Eeeiww!
I’m guessing those horse pills are Bactrim DS. Which is good, and it works. One doc even said he’s never seen a staph infection that didn’t respond to it yet. When that happens it’s all over for the human race, I tell you!
Hope that foot gets better! Glad your BP did, already!
Actually it’s augmenten. The wound itself seems to be healing now, but the area around it is still swollen, a bit red, and weirdly HARD. I’m hoping it’s just due to the DEATHS OF MILLIONS OF EVIL BACTERIA!!! and not due to some crappy resistance.
at any rate, once again, soaking in the epsom salts - walgreens! 2 giant bags for $9.62.
Ew. I had a beesting on my foot that got infected earlier in the summer. It didn’t get as nasty-looking as yours but it was still unpleasant, mostly because there was this surprisingly clear line between the infected part of the foot and the healthy part, which kept moving further toward my ankle until the infection started to clear up.
I counter your nasty-foot story with my own nasty-foot story! Muhaha!