Benevolent One
Team Owner
My wife made me go to the ER last night, and it turns out it was a very good thing that I listened to her for a change.
I started out with this thing on the back of my neck. At first it was just sore and it itched some. I tried to just keep it clean and ignore it and hoped it would go away. Of course, it just kept getting bigger and uglier. I just tried to ignore how bad it hurt and the disgusting stuff that was starting to come out of it. I couldn't see it because, again, it is on the back of my neck. My wife ended up behind me on the stairs last night and asked me if I had any idea how bad it looked and, of course, I said "now, how would I know that?". So she took a picture of it with her cell phone and showed it to me. She told me she sees stuff like that at work (she's a receptionist at a hand surgery and rehab place) and people ended up in the hospital with MRSA. She told me to go to the ER and try to head that off. The ER doc told me he was pretty certain that it was MRSA and although he wouldn't get the lab results back for 3 days that he was going to treat it as if it is MRSA. He also said that if I had waited another day or two I'd have probably been looking at a long hospital stay and, with it being really close to my spine, it could have gotten real serious. He drained it and left it open with a drain of some kind and is making me take an antibiotic that will work against MRSA.
I started out with this thing on the back of my neck. At first it was just sore and it itched some. I tried to just keep it clean and ignore it and hoped it would go away. Of course, it just kept getting bigger and uglier. I just tried to ignore how bad it hurt and the disgusting stuff that was starting to come out of it. I couldn't see it because, again, it is on the back of my neck. My wife ended up behind me on the stairs last night and asked me if I had any idea how bad it looked and, of course, I said "now, how would I know that?". So she took a picture of it with her cell phone and showed it to me. She told me she sees stuff like that at work (she's a receptionist at a hand surgery and rehab place) and people ended up in the hospital with MRSA. She told me to go to the ER and try to head that off. The ER doc told me he was pretty certain that it was MRSA and although he wouldn't get the lab results back for 3 days that he was going to treat it as if it is MRSA. He also said that if I had waited another day or two I'd have probably been looking at a long hospital stay and, with it being really close to my spine, it could have gotten real serious. He drained it and left it open with a drain of some kind and is making me take an antibiotic that will work against MRSA.
