A Personal Update
February 12, 2008
Sunday, I noticed that the right side of my face was a bit tender. When I woke up on Monday, it looked like someone had punched me. Swelling continued throughout the day. I went to the health clinic at UH. They prescribed an oral antibiotic, and they strongly encouraged that I go to an ER.
I went about 1am this morning. It’s a huge abscess. The ER doctor was able to get it to drain a bit, but not much. They started me on IV antibiotics. Five minutes later, I was itchy all over, especially on the top of my head and in my armpits. I was having an allergic reaction.
They stopped the IV. Then the doctor doubled my oral antibiotic and prescribed me a second one. She also prescribed a topical ointment for staph.
Yeah, it’s a staph infection.
I didn’t teach today. I won’t teach tomorrow. But I’m worried: the abscess really hasn’t gone down yet. EEEP!
February 13, 2008 at 7:50 am
okay so literally two minutes ago guilmart informed me of all this…dude. why didn’t you say anything?? omg that sucks. (i’m a fan of that word this week…)
i hope it gets better :-/
February 13, 2008 at 12:30 pm
It’s a wait and see. I’m really trying to avoid plastic surgery. It doesn’t look quite so nasty today; maybe that’s a good sign!
February 13, 2008 at 9:29 pm
keep me posted, yo.