kayre | The adventure continues!

So, when last we wrote, I had been to urgent care with a high fever, gotten my elbow unstitched, gotten new antibiotics, and the fever was dropping again.

This leaves me with quite an unsightly mess on my elbow. I lost some skin in the accident, the surgeon had gently pulled edges together to stitch. Removing the stitches early, to clean out suspected infection, let some of the edges pull apart. So we are in a wait-and-see state right now, hoping that the arm will manage to heal across the gap. Otherwise I'll probably be having a small skin graft.

The next news was that the sample from the wound was completely negative-- no MRSA but nothing else either. Which means the source of the fever was internal and is still unknown, and I was still supposed to finish 2 weeks of broad-spectrum antibiotic because of the still open possibility of MRSA.

I continued to muddle along... arm hurts quite a lot, plus I thought I was slow recovering from the fever (which was quite scary high). Then Sunday I felt quite ill. Monday I woke up feeling really good-- and 90 minutes after taking the antibiotic I was miserable. Really nasty headache, stiff neck, fatigue, and depressed to the point of tears over feeling so awful. Called the doctor, and that qualifies for "stop taking it right away."

Looked forward to waking up finally feeling better today but no... the effects of 3 weeks of antibiotics finally caught up with my digestive system, despite faithful use of probiotics. Yet another miserable day, but I am hoping I've turned the corner now, after 12 hours.

I'd really like to get a pass on at least one side effect or complication, please! Maybe send lots of good thoughts for NOT needing a graft?