So several months ago I wake up in the morning and notice that my left leg (lower from ankle to mid shin) is really red, sore and warm to the touch, almost hot like my leg had a fever. I checked it out for a few minutes and moved on with my day
It stayed that way for a couple of days and then a blister appeared... and got bigger. It grew to about the size of half of a golf ball and if air blew across it the thing stung like hell. The USMC taught me how to deal with blisters {WARNING SEVERE STUPIDITY AHEAD).... I popped that bad boy, drenched it in peroxide and decided to let it dry out.
Ever since then I had basically a huge, infected hole in my leg (grossness) that oozed puss continuously and was extremely sensitive to the touch, made sleeping pretty damned difficult I can tell you that not to mention the several fevers I had I think because of the infection.
My wife encouraged me (vigorously) to visit the doctor but no insurance and a pretty strong stubborn streak made me say "it'll get better on its own, if it gets worse I'll go" I wasn't going to go unless I smell gangrene I tell ya what. I told her it was probably a spider bite, most likely a brown recluse and I would be fine. I based this diagnosis on the fact that............I guessed.
Today while looking something up I came across an image of a recluse bit and I have to tell you, it is not as gross looking as mine was... but they probably didn't exercise my genius of popping things I had no business popping
End of the story, the thing is almost 100% healed now, took more than a few months, was very painful BUT, I was right. There was nothing the doctor could have done.
I was bitten in bed....now I have phantom things biting me all the time, talk about paranoid LOL
beware of spiders
It stayed that way for a couple of days and then a blister appeared... and got bigger. It grew to about the size of half of a golf ball and if air blew across it the thing stung like hell. The USMC taught me how to deal with blisters {WARNING SEVERE STUPIDITY AHEAD).... I popped that bad boy, drenched it in peroxide and decided to let it dry out.
Ever since then I had basically a huge, infected hole in my leg (grossness) that oozed puss continuously and was extremely sensitive to the touch, made sleeping pretty damned difficult I can tell you that not to mention the several fevers I had I think because of the infection.
My wife encouraged me (vigorously) to visit the doctor but no insurance and a pretty strong stubborn streak made me say "it'll get better on its own, if it gets worse I'll go" I wasn't going to go unless I smell gangrene I tell ya what. I told her it was probably a spider bite, most likely a brown recluse and I would be fine. I based this diagnosis on the fact that............I guessed.
Today while looking something up I came across an image of a recluse bit and I have to tell you, it is not as gross looking as mine was... but they probably didn't exercise my genius of popping things I had no business popping
End of the story, the thing is almost 100% healed now, took more than a few months, was very painful BUT, I was right. There was nothing the doctor could have done.
I was bitten in bed....now I have phantom things biting me all the time, talk about paranoid LOL
beware of spiders
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