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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.
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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?
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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...
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I actually meant to type "fat fucker", but "fact fucker" will do just as well.
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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.
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Got off on the wrong foot with someone recently, Plastic Boy? B)
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Ack. Almost makes me want to stop poking at my calluses. Almost.
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"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.
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"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.
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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.
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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
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