buttocks/ice update
Jan. 30th, 2009 12:16 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rubahK so, got a call this morning saying the university is going to be closed the rest of this week. Well shit.
I call my house repeatedly, no answer. I look up clinics in fayetteville and call the family doctor at home, no appointments available until monday, except one I could make if I left RIGHT THEN.
They planned a power outage in the dorm so I was kinda getting frazzled, I'd lose my internet soon, so stu called his mom for advice and I finally got ahold of dad, and they both suggested to go to the ER.
It was a question I had been wrestling with for a few days. How do you know when a disorder has escalated to the point that it qualifies as 'emergency?'
This, I guess.
Anyways, I got some cute pictures of me in an unflattering hospital gown, and Stu pointed out a very interesting coincidence concerning the name of the doctor who saw me!
The thing about Dr. Tarr is that it's the name of a song we played my last year in marching band. We never found out if he knew a Professor Fether.
Anyways, I have three kinds of antibiotics. One oral, one nasal, and one topical. Of course the topical one is just neosporin, but whatever ;) The nasal one is pretty funny. I spread some on a q-tip, wipe the inside of my nostril with the q-tip, turn it around and do the other side then pinch my nose together to slather it really well xD Apparently Staph lives in our noses, generally (wikipedia says up to 1/3 of the population hosts it there) so this prevents reinfection, I imagine.
I also have a painkiller (hydrocodone) which hasn't seemed to do much yet. I guess I was able to lay on my back while reading earlier tonight.
K so, there has been a little white spot in the middle of the largest boil, abcess, idk, mound we'll say, for several days. I had thought it was just some flaked skin, but for the third time, it turns out that instead of skin, it was actually a mass of congealed infectiongunk (green >:X). It wasn't quite as simple as the second mound to remove (I was scratching off dead skin and the gunk came off with it, and with the evil hair that either started this mess or got caught in the middle of it).
After I had eased plenty of pus out and it was basically just coming out with blood, I washed the area down with some hydrogen peroxide (according to wiki, staph can neutralize H2O2). Running my hand over it, I realized it was starting to protrude a little, so I squeezed it until agony (the first level of squeezing is only mild bruisive discomfort. Agony is where suddenly you find you have tears in your eyes. This is what got me the hydrocodone I think) and I was able to get a grasp on it. It took a few tries, but I finally got the monster out, leaving a rather large cavity on my buttock. (I could put the tip of my index finger in there) this was rather gross, so I made a point of showing it to my parents!
After that, i decided it would be prudent to cover the wound, so I got mom to gauze and bandage me up (through this whole ordeal, I've had relatively little trouble in exposing my butt to people that need to see it, which admittedly is just stu, the nurses and doctor, and my parents. at least it's just the upper side, which means I can still keep my panties halfway up in some modicuum of decency) and now I'm dying to find out how it looks.
In less butt-related news, here are some pictures of the massive ice storm that delayed my medical treatment by two agonizing days.
<-post-apocalyptic looking, isn't it?
<-You really CAN fit three cars into two parking spaces
Deathcicles. Their brethren sent a dude to the ER in the room next to mine with some substantial cranial damage. doctor came in after treating him and said he'd had head trouble, and I asked if it was from icicles, and funnily enough, it was! (thank you again stu for warning me against Deathcicles)
What you can't see in this picture is the tree immediately to the left of frame which split into five pieces, completely obstructing one of the main entrances to the business college building. (pictures forthcoming when I feel like uploading off my digicam)
My new phone bground
(I would lj cut those, but then people who want to see pretty ice pictures would probably end up seeing butt stuff xD)
Anyways, I am safely at home, in my parents' tender loving care, well anti-bioticked (remind me to get some yogurt soon) and almost able to sit comfortably.
I call my house repeatedly, no answer. I look up clinics in fayetteville and call the family doctor at home, no appointments available until monday, except one I could make if I left RIGHT THEN.
They planned a power outage in the dorm so I was kinda getting frazzled, I'd lose my internet soon, so stu called his mom for advice and I finally got ahold of dad, and they both suggested to go to the ER.
It was a question I had been wrestling with for a few days. How do you know when a disorder has escalated to the point that it qualifies as 'emergency?'
This, I guess.
Anyways, I got some cute pictures of me in an unflattering hospital gown, and Stu pointed out a very interesting coincidence concerning the name of the doctor who saw me!
The thing about Dr. Tarr is that it's the name of a song we played my last year in marching band. We never found out if he knew a Professor Fether.
Anyways, I have three kinds of antibiotics. One oral, one nasal, and one topical. Of course the topical one is just neosporin, but whatever ;) The nasal one is pretty funny. I spread some on a q-tip, wipe the inside of my nostril with the q-tip, turn it around and do the other side then pinch my nose together to slather it really well xD Apparently Staph lives in our noses, generally (wikipedia says up to 1/3 of the population hosts it there) so this prevents reinfection, I imagine.
I also have a painkiller (hydrocodone) which hasn't seemed to do much yet. I guess I was able to lay on my back while reading earlier tonight.
K so, there has been a little white spot in the middle of the largest boil, abcess, idk, mound we'll say, for several days. I had thought it was just some flaked skin, but for the third time, it turns out that instead of skin, it was actually a mass of congealed infectiongunk (green >:X). It wasn't quite as simple as the second mound to remove (I was scratching off dead skin and the gunk came off with it, and with the evil hair that either started this mess or got caught in the middle of it).
After I had eased plenty of pus out and it was basically just coming out with blood, I washed the area down with some hydrogen peroxide (according to wiki, staph can neutralize H2O2). Running my hand over it, I realized it was starting to protrude a little, so I squeezed it until agony (the first level of squeezing is only mild bruisive discomfort. Agony is where suddenly you find you have tears in your eyes. This is what got me the hydrocodone I think) and I was able to get a grasp on it. It took a few tries, but I finally got the monster out, leaving a rather large cavity on my buttock. (I could put the tip of my index finger in there) this was rather gross, so I made a point of showing it to my parents!
After that, i decided it would be prudent to cover the wound, so I got mom to gauze and bandage me up (through this whole ordeal, I've had relatively little trouble in exposing my butt to people that need to see it, which admittedly is just stu, the nurses and doctor, and my parents. at least it's just the upper side, which means I can still keep my panties halfway up in some modicuum of decency) and now I'm dying to find out how it looks.
In less butt-related news, here are some pictures of the massive ice storm that delayed my medical treatment by two agonizing days.
<-post-apocalyptic looking, isn't it? <-You really CAN fit three cars into two parking spacesDeathcicles. Their brethren sent a dude to the ER in the room next to mine with some substantial cranial damage. doctor came in after treating him and said he'd had head trouble, and I asked if it was from icicles, and funnily enough, it was! (thank you again stu for warning me against Deathcicles) What you can't see in this picture is the tree immediately to the left of frame which split into five pieces, completely obstructing one of the main entrances to the business college building. (pictures forthcoming when I feel like uploading off my digicam) My new phone bground(I would lj cut those, but then people who want to see pretty ice pictures would probably end up seeing butt stuff xD)
Anyways, I am safely at home, in my parents' tender loving care, well anti-bioticked (remind me to get some yogurt soon) and almost able to sit comfortably.
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Date: 2009-01-30 06:24 am (UTC)I wish they'd give ME some hydrocodone, despite my bad reactions to it.
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Date: 2009-01-30 10:54 pm (UTC)And yeah, I *tried* to eat, as much as one can with their mouth stuffed with bloody gauze. I'm glad that's all over and done with.
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Date: 2009-01-30 07:38 am (UTC)Hopefully yours will be more forgiving that that though. Get well soon! :-)
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Date: 2009-01-30 06:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-01-30 07:54 am (UTC)I had to use the nose antibiotic after my surgery in August, it was pretty goofy, I know what you mean :)
Hang in there and HOLY JEEZ THAT ICE STORM.
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Date: 2009-01-30 06:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-01-30 11:46 am (UTC)Anyway, those pictures remind me why I love ice so much
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Date: 2009-01-30 06:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-01-30 09:38 pm (UTC)So it was a boil on the arse right? I know how that feels, faintly. Had that when I was little kid!
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Date: 2009-01-30 06:37 pm (UTC)I thought of you while thinking over my pharm experience! Stu was wondering how the pharmacists knew about drug side effects xD He was like "do they take them themselves? Or is there a sideeffect database"
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