That Looks Unusually Like a Normal Leg

[billroper]

Well, fourteen days of Augmentin did not kill the staph infection in my leg, so on Wednesday I went back to see Dr. Bob who wrote me a prescription for 21 days of Bactrim. The leg has slowly been becoming less red and is almost looking normal -- save for the slowly closing hole where the original infection erupted.

However, the swelling in my left foot that has been there ever since the surgery has gone away, my knee no longer feels swollen at all, and the leg looks like it's more or less the same size as my other leg. That's a major improvement.

We'll see how it goes. Bob has promised an update on the wound culture tomorrow. They already determined that it's staph and that it wasn't growing too quickly, but it'd be nice to know more about the pedigree of the beasts in my leg.

*sigh*

Comments

[mia-mcdavid.livejournal.com]

Well, it *does* sound uncommonly like progress; I'm glad to hear it. The bugs is getting nastier these days...

[qnofhrt.livejournal.com]

The bugs is getting nastier these days...

True but Bactrim is an old drug - like from the '70's. (It's actually two drugs as is the augmentin.) Obviously they're two drugs that the bugs don't like.

Glad to hear you're improving!

[mbumby.livejournal.com]

Congratulations. Glad you found something that works.

I've had various ... interesting ... skin problems, (in the middle of July they told me it was "Winter Eczema") that stopped reacting to even a constant application of (the generic form of) the most super-duper steroid they had -- and when I started utilizing the side effect of a dietary supplement instead I remember how exciting it was to say "wow -- that looks like *skin*".

[min0taur.livejournal.com]

Staph is *really* damn hard to kill. I know I don't need to tell you to be careful with it, but (regardless) be careful with it. It can land you in the hospital with intravenous antibiotics as a next stage of intervention. And (as I'm sure you know) gotta use those as sparingly as possible to avoid improving the enemy. It got into my lymphatic system when I was in high school, and has flared up from time to time since then, so in my case it is (as practitioners say these days) a "managed" condition. I've found that anything that improves the circulation in the extremities is useful, and vigilance for the symptoms henceforth would be wise. (What we really need is nanotech to rip the little buggers apart.) Hang in there.

[carolf.livejournal.com]

I wonder now ...

I know that modern science is revisiting some of what we used to consider barbaric practices of yore, because it turns out the actually work, after all. Maybe there's some kind of poultice that would draw the infection? Leeches, maybe? Or, how about the maggots they use to cure gangrene?

I'm not making you feel any better, am I?

(Good news -- Keep it up! and keep that staph away from Mom and daughter!)