Re: Cellulitus 4th Time

Posted by jd b puller on July 16, 2011 at 19:40:39 from (24.211.242.197):

In Reply to: Cellulitus 4th Time posted by elmersooner on July 16, 2011 at 01:45:41:

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I had that "M" stuff 2 years ago if that's what he's referring to as MRSA. Started off as a boil looking thing on my knee. Hurt so bad just my shorts rubbing up against it hurt. Called off work and went to the Dr. on a Monday (it had been growing about 5 days). I just figured it was an infected hair, metal sliver, etc. Doc looked at it and said it looked like MRSA. Take Bactrum and Doxicyclene for 2 weeks and you should be fine. Doxi makes me nauseas as it turns out, and you really don't want to be in the sun. Hurt so bad I called off work the next day. Went to work on Wed in agonizing pain, limping, and sweating in my chair.

Thursday, I went to work until about 9am when I called my real doc and said I think my MRSA is getting worse. He took one look at it and sent me to the hospital for IV Antibiotics. Vancomyacin, I think they called it.

They X-rayed the knee to at 8pm to see if it had spread to the joint and it hadn't yet. Told me the orthopedic surgeon would be in in about 2 hours, lance it open, clean it out and hopefully be on the way to recovery. Told me they'd give my Vicadin for pain. I told the Nurse that Vikes make me puke, I'd rather have about anything else. Long story short, I shoulda puked all over their room. The doc came in at 10pm right on schedule. Shot a few rounds of Lidacaine in there and began cutting and pushing and squeezing and more cutting. Even with the lidacaine, it was very painful. The lidacaine wore off about 10:15... No pain meds. They apparently couldn't get ahold of the Dr that wrote the initial prescription for Vikes. I politely asked for anything else. They 'were working on it". By 11:00pm, I called the nurse and asked if they were having any luck, I was reall hurting. By 11:15, I had sweat rolling down my forehead and tears in my eyes. Called them again and said I was really hurting. Called them again at 11:30 and told them I was tired of asking, get me a charge nurse now. She came in and says, "how can I help you" as if she had no idea what was wrong.

I looked at her and said, "Look, I've been here since 6pm. You've stuck an IV in my right arm, missed the vein, pumped the fluid in anyways to the point where my forearm was visibly swollen and looked like Popeye. The nurse gave me an icepack, pulled the needle out never came back. Then you sent another nurse in to put the IV in my left arm. She missed that vein too and didn't bother trying again. I've got a hole in my knee big enough to stick my thumb in, I've received no pain killers, or the miracle antibiotic that I came here to get, and I can barely tolerate the pain. I've asked 5 times for painkillers and you couldn't even get me a Tylenol. How the F do you think I am? I don't care if you have to get the Hospital administrator in here, I need something to help with the pain."

So she left. Near as I can figure, I blacked out around 11:45ish. I was awakened about midnight (must have been shift change) to have some woman washing the top of my hand. Just before she stuck me, I woke up and asked who she was - some sort of manager. Then she said she had something for pain (Delaudid, I think they called it...) Nighty nite. It got better from there. They finally got some drugs in me.

When my doc came to look at me 2 days later on Sat, it was having little effect and they were afraid it was going to go sceptic (that's where it spreads to the blood and you stand a good chance of going to the morgue).

They doubled the dosage from *1000mg twice a day), to (1500mg 3 times a day) and it started working. I went home on Monday eve (got there on Thursday).

I've had a couple more bouts with it - although I've learned to catch it early and avoided the hospital. The bad thing is that now I've become allergic to the "Bactrum", it's a Sulfa drug and I start itching and get covered in a million little red rash dots that eventually blend into one big rash covering everything from my waist up.

I could post some pics of the knee, but they are pretty disgusting.

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