Until she gets her own blog.
My mother’s medical drama. Taken from an email she sent out recently explaining her week-long absence.
- Friday: Went in to have two benign lesions removed (vanity)
- Sunday: became feeling very ill.
- Monday: went back in to same dermatologist’s office for scheduled psoriasis treatment and asked that someone look at the site on my leg which is now an angry, red, oozing 6 inch circle of dead and dying skin.
- RN looks at and dresses it and sends me on my way dismissing my flu symptoms as…well…the flu
- Monday, continued: go home and proceed to settle into raging fever, chills, can’t sit up, can’t walk without help from wall type of “flu”
- Tuesday: don’t remember anything but fingertips turning white.
- Wednesday: am able to fix soup. I find this very encouraging. Go back to bed. Joe wakes up and finds house filled with smoke…I hadn’t turned the stove off and caught dish towel on fire. (McCoy will not be on the next episode of Amazing Animal Alerts Mistress of House on Fire) Will be installing smoke alarms still in boxes in garage this weekend. Becoming worried about this “flu” and pain in leg.
- Thursday: Go to PCP who looks concerned, asks lots of questions and who then calls dermatologists to see me next morning and prescribes antibiotic.
- Today: see dermatologist who also looks concerned, takes culture, prescribes “speicial” ointments to be mixed and applied twice daily, then wrap with gauze NO TAPE ON THAT SKIN…Tylenol 3 is called into pharmacy and a standing weekly appointment from now until Thanksgiving (?)…I am advised that this will take a “very long time to heal” and I am to call if anything looks or feels wrong. Dermotologist comes back in exam room to tell me to be sure and CALL HIM IF ANYTHING LOOKS OR FEELS WRONG. I am getting the picture.
- So I have a staph infection. I am feeling better. Thank you. I will write more later.
