Alright guys here is the full story on me as of late.
For the past few months my girlfriend has had a pretty bad case of Mono and somehow ended up with a Staph infection along the way. I have been devoting a lot of my free time to be with her.
Recently (just under 2 weeks ago) I noticed a really painful spot on my knee after a bike ride. Through the next week it got worse, I thought it was just an ingrown hair or something. Then I ended up going to the doctor and he let me know that it was a Staph infection. GREAT. At this point it just hurt a lot, but I could still walk fine and whatnot. So I went back to work after I went to the doctors. As soon as I made it back to work, my leg started swelling like no other; I started to get worried because I could hardly even walk. To give you guys a reference on pain, almost about this time last year I broke my ankle (see photo below):
This hurt more than breaking my ankle (Stage 5 ligament tears, dislocated, fractured bone, etc.) I started getting the chills and developing a fever.
I went to the hospital. They gave me an I.V. of hardcore antibiotics and started taking my blood like crazy. After all of the poking, I though I was done. Boy was I wrong. They had a knee specialist come in and try and remove fluid from my knee with a rather large gauge needle. I have no problem with needles, but this thing was HUGE. After digging around in my knee for about a minute, he found nothing. He didnt take the needle out; he just moved it around the inside of my knee. If you have ever seen video of liposuction, it looked similar to that. Here I am after that:
After that, I insisted on some pain medication. I then found out I Have a high tolerance to narcotics so they gave me morphine in I.V. form as well as a pill. Here I am after that:
After being in the ER for 7 hours, they decided they were going to admit me. Here is my leg after they moved me into the room - swollen from hip to ankle:
My brother visited and brought me some room decoration:
Some more room photos (I was also quarantined because the strand of Staph I had was MRSA witch is an extremely resistant strand to almost all antibiotics.)
This was on the outside of my room:
Long story short, I spent 4 days in the hospital on gnarly pain killers and antibiotics. All of this the weekend/week before my 21st birthday. Once I finally make it out of the hospital, they give me some crazy antibiotics in pill form that make it so I cannot have the following: Chocolate, Cheese, Soy Sauce, Beer on tap, or anything else that has been fermented.
Needless to say, it has been a tough week. They told me to stay home from work for this whole last week. Good you would think, but not really. I dont have an internet connection at home because Im so far up in the hills so I spent a lot of time watching TV and playing video games. Beat the game Black in 2 days. And developed a pretty good hatred of TV. I also used up all of my paid sick days. ****.
So this weekend I finally get to have my birthday keggar. Im excited. =] Just thought I would share my story
For the past few months my girlfriend has had a pretty bad case of Mono and somehow ended up with a Staph infection along the way. I have been devoting a lot of my free time to be with her.
Recently (just under 2 weeks ago) I noticed a really painful spot on my knee after a bike ride. Through the next week it got worse, I thought it was just an ingrown hair or something. Then I ended up going to the doctor and he let me know that it was a Staph infection. GREAT. At this point it just hurt a lot, but I could still walk fine and whatnot. So I went back to work after I went to the doctors. As soon as I made it back to work, my leg started swelling like no other; I started to get worried because I could hardly even walk. To give you guys a reference on pain, almost about this time last year I broke my ankle (see photo below):
This hurt more than breaking my ankle (Stage 5 ligament tears, dislocated, fractured bone, etc.) I started getting the chills and developing a fever.
I went to the hospital. They gave me an I.V. of hardcore antibiotics and started taking my blood like crazy. After all of the poking, I though I was done. Boy was I wrong. They had a knee specialist come in and try and remove fluid from my knee with a rather large gauge needle. I have no problem with needles, but this thing was HUGE. After digging around in my knee for about a minute, he found nothing. He didnt take the needle out; he just moved it around the inside of my knee. If you have ever seen video of liposuction, it looked similar to that. Here I am after that:
After that, I insisted on some pain medication. I then found out I Have a high tolerance to narcotics so they gave me morphine in I.V. form as well as a pill. Here I am after that:
After being in the ER for 7 hours, they decided they were going to admit me. Here is my leg after they moved me into the room - swollen from hip to ankle:
My brother visited and brought me some room decoration:
Some more room photos (I was also quarantined because the strand of Staph I had was MRSA witch is an extremely resistant strand to almost all antibiotics.)
This was on the outside of my room:
Long story short, I spent 4 days in the hospital on gnarly pain killers and antibiotics. All of this the weekend/week before my 21st birthday. Once I finally make it out of the hospital, they give me some crazy antibiotics in pill form that make it so I cannot have the following: Chocolate, Cheese, Soy Sauce, Beer on tap, or anything else that has been fermented.
Needless to say, it has been a tough week. They told me to stay home from work for this whole last week. Good you would think, but not really. I dont have an internet connection at home because Im so far up in the hills so I spent a lot of time watching TV and playing video games. Beat the game Black in 2 days. And developed a pretty good hatred of TV. I also used up all of my paid sick days. ****.
So this weekend I finally get to have my birthday keggar. Im excited. =] Just thought I would share my story
