Ok, so I wake up Tuesday and my foot is fine. By lunch time it's 4x normal size and a horrid shade of sickly purple green. Wife drags me to the hospital, and before I know it they're putting me to sleep. I wake up and my big toe and about a rather large chunk of the bottom of my foot is gone.
Seems somehow I contracted a strep infection in my foot. A rather quick moving painful almost deadly strep infection. They tell me if Liz hadn't dragged me to the hospital when she did I would have lost the entire leg.
So, I lay here... got my laptop, got my mini-fridge, got my books and got my microwave. I'll be off my feet for a couple weeks at least plus then I have to go in for PT so I can walk right with the chunk missing from my foot.
Moral of the story: If your foot changes color in the middle of the day, always ask an ex-nurse for her opinion.
Posted by Highway Hoss (Member # 1289) on :
Man, just thinking about that makes me wince..... Posted by Styrofoaman (Member # 706) on :
If ya'll want I'll post pictures. Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
Wow, that's quite impressive. Certainly puts Tim and his "I have an ickle cold and am sickly" moaning to shame. The fact fucker.
So, how do you catch a strep infection?
Posted by Styrofoaman (Member # 706) on :
No idea. Doctor said all it takes is a tiny nick or scratch. Odd are somehow I contracted it through a scratch or through a nick from when I cut my toenails.
Not important really at this point. I just wish the damn thing would stop thobbing...
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
"The fact fucker."
I do what, now?
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
I actually meant to type "fat fucker", but "fact fucker" will do just as well.
Posted by Nim the Fanciful (Member # 205) on :
Styrofoamman, I'm so sorry to hear about this. What is strep? Is it like tetanus? At first I thought you meant streptocockus (sp?), but that's a throat disease, AFAIK. Had it once.
And here I thought the only thing that could make a foot blue-green was advanced diabetes...
You can get it from clipping your nails with a dirty clipper? Now I'm scared.
Posted by Cartman (Member # 256) on :
Got off on the wrong foot with someone recently, Plastic Boy? B)
Posted by deadcujo (Member # 13) on :
Ack. Almost makes me want to stop poking at my calluses. Almost.
Posted by Saltah'na (Member # 33) on :
"Dude, does this look infected?"
But hey, I feel for ya, Styro. Not really that pleasant when you lose a chunk of your foot.
But it goes to show that it can happen to anyone, I guess.
Yeah, your wife is the real hero here. Some men can be quite stubborn when it comes to needing help.
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
"Strep" is short for "Streptococcus". It's a genus of bacteria. There are different species of it, though. One (or some?) can cause "strep throat", but there are others than can be more or less serious.
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
Wow. You lost your toe!?!
If they give you the antibiotic CIPRO, you'll have a harsh chemical smell for days afterwards. It's nasty.
I feel your pain...literally and constantly. I have a wound on my shin that refuses to heal because it's a "Pioderma" ulceration and if I were an animal, I'd have gnawed the fucking leg off months ago to stop the constant pain.
I find I have a whole new threshold for minor wounds though: even deep cust are now trivial by comparison.
Posted by Wraith (Member # 779) on :
Posted by Wraith (Member # 779) on :
quote:Originally posted by Styrofoaman: If ya'll want I'll post pictures.
Oh, please do. I like nothing better than pictures of bloated, infected, many coloured extremities Posted by Capt.Blair245 (Member # 1113) on :
Yeah show it man it'll be hilarious lol
Posted by Ultra Magnus (Member # 239) on :
When you forget to close the door, you let the retards in.
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
Since I neglected to mention it before: I hope you get better quick! Hospitals suck: if you need a list of good books to read, get Hyperion.
Or, just finally write that Trek novel that's brewing in us all. Posted by Styrofoaman (Member # 706) on :
Doctor said we'll most likely never know where the infection came from. Might have been from clipping my nails, might have gotten it by walking barefoot somewhere.
Doesn't really matter. Important thing is that they can fix it.
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
And this is why I demand people wear socks when walking in my house. I am saving them from themselves. And strep infections.
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
Well, I don't know that socks will work, if they step on something that pokes through the socks. Shoes, you should demand.
Posted by Cartman (Member # 256) on :
"I am saving them from themselves."
If they're already far enough gone to enter your house willingly, then there's not all that much you can do to save them, is there?
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
That is what happens when you're the one with Digital TV and Mario Kart.
And socks would save them from minor infections. Although I do tend to have shoes on when I'm indoors anyway. In case I get summoned to a party quickly.
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
"Summoned" by some young magician or necromancer?
Posted by Cartman (Member # 256) on :
"That is what happens when you're the one with Digital TV and Mario Kart."
Digital TV may be of higher quality, but almost all the channels are still barren wastelands filled with garbage. And everyone has Mario Kart. So no.
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
Only one other person has Mario Kart. And even if a lot of digital TV channels are rubbish, with several hundred going up against five you're bound to find something better.
Plus, football is only on Sky. So, yes.
Posted by Cartman (Member # 256) on :
Football is for twats.
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
You are for twats!
No, wait, that's not right...
Posted by Cartman (Member # 256) on :
Clever. Really.
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
It was better than "Fucking shittey arse fuck". Mario Kart caused me to shout that once, when someone knocked me into one of those plant things just before I crossed the finish line. Unfortunatly, it was my nephew who I shouted at. And he was eight. And his mum was in the room.
Kids game my arse.
Posted by Topher (Member # 71) on :
On another note, at a hospital near where I live a woman died of a deadly strain of this bacteria, specifically necrotizing faciitis (or something), with another man hospitalized. Five other patients were called back to be re-examined. All patients were in for minor day surgeries and contracted the disease from the hospital.
Posted by Cartman (Member # 256) on :
At university, I am the undisputed master at it. My skill with a green shell is unsurpassed. I can cause the most foul of exlamations with a perfectly placed banana on a bridge.
I thought my nephews would like it. I got it for them for Christmas. I went back to Liverpool. I returned over Easter, and played them at it. The elder, who is eight, destroyed me. He showed me short-cuts I never knew. He made me realised that Toad's kart is indeed the best. He seemed to be one with it.
I swore at him. Accidently. A lot.
(As if that's not bad enough, the 5 year old completed Wind Waker before me. Granted, he had help from his dad and older brother, but he's now on his third play through. I still haven't fully activated the master sword. I am ashamed.)
Posted by Cartman (Member # 256) on :
And so you should be. Even *I* have completed Wind Waker, and I borrowed it. Along with the Cube. For a week. So there.
What university do you attend, anyway?
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
The University of Liverpool. In Liverpool.
Apparently, it's the oldest redbrick university in the land. Which means something, I'm sure.
I could have completed Wind Waker, but I like to take my time, and explore everything. Plus I don't like playing it when I'm suppossed to be doing something (like dissertation), because I don't enjoy the game as much as I probably should.
Also, when I got the game, I had to play Ocarina first, since I'd never played it. So it was like, whoa, Zelda overload. Dude.
Posted by Cartman (Member # 256) on :
So you don't like playing games when you're supposed to be HARD AT WORK, but you do like reading Teen Titan episode reviews. Buh?
And you haven't experienced a Zelda overload until you've replayed the original NES and SNES titles in one straight go. On your PC. With an emulator. HARDCORE TO THE MAX DUDE!! Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
Because when I am reading the reviews, I still have Word open with my work in the background. Therefore, I am almost working.
To play Wind Waker, I'd have to change seats. Which is much more of a leap. You see?
Posted by Cartman (Member # 256) on :
No, because if you changed seats to play a game rather than open a browser window to read a review, Word would be left tantalizingly in the foreground, so you'd still be almost working. There is therefore no difference. You see?
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Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
But with the browsing, I'm only one click away from returning to work. Whereas the game playing would require both seat movement and monitor-turning-on. So, you see, big difference.
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
I'll give you the seat-changing point, but you could leave the monitor on.
Posted by Ultra Magnus (Member # 239) on :
ENGLANDERS ARE WHINEY AND LAZEY GO KISS THE QUEEN YOU FOOLS
Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
quote:Originally posted by Wraith:
quote:Originally posted by Styrofoaman: If ya'll want I'll post pictures.
Oh, please do. I like nothing better than pictures of bloated, infected, many coloured extremities
In some parts that's called porn! If you're talking about the 'fifth extremity'. OK, maybe not the infected bit. Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
"...GO KISS THE QUEEN YOU FOOLS"
She's still your head of state, too, y'know.
Posted by Cartman (Member # 256) on :
Well, if Liam were to kiss her, that relationship would be over, wouldn't it?
"Whereas the game playing would require both seat movement and monitor-turning-on."
You have just single-handedly upped the ante for personal indolence to record height. Well done.
"In some parts that's called porn!"
Australians are daft.
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
The monitor turns off automatically after a bit. Although I do turn it off anyway when I get up from the computer for any length of time. To avoid burn-in, which can still happen if you leave monitors on for, like, a month. Better safe than sorry.
Posted by deadcujo (Member # 13) on :
I've been using the same 17-inch monitor since 1998, and it has a very prominent burn-in from when I wasn't able to use resolutions higher than 1152x864. It's like an obnoxious frame and I can even see the Windows Start button if the on-screen colors are right. Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
How does not being able to use high resolutions cause monitor burn-in?
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If you're talking about the 'fifth extremity'.