Memnison Journal

Went to the podiatrist/surgeon on Monday, and he’s leaving in the stitches for longer – I’m a slow healer, and there’s a couple of small gaps in the thing. He’s switched over to a much smaller bandage thing, essentially enough to cover the incision, and has to be redone every day with special silver gel [...]

(1)  The surgery on my LEFT foot is still hanging fire, but this time, it’s because the various docs who had to give me clearance didn’t do so (first due to a goofy EKG that showed up nothing in a stress test, and then due to a white count that is pretty comparable with what [...]

Going to the emergency room with another leg infection, this time from a gash on my right leg…been doing what I could to reduce things over the last few days since I got the gash, but it’s getting red and heating up. You can’t imagine how upset and annoyed I am about this.    More later; [...]

Meredith is having her last day of school for the year today, and we’re just as happy for her to have some serious down-time.  She has been getting really stressed over various things – it’s coming out right now over the tons of homework these kids are assigned – and I’m stating to get really [...]

On Saturday, I started getting the red splotchy stuff, and it was really apparent Sunday noonish that it wasn’t going away and my body temp was going up in the area, and so on…so we went off to Edward Hospital in Naperville – to get a fresh set of eyes on the situation, since I [...]

Back in the Hospital since Friday night with cellulitis of the lower leg again; this went from a reddish splotch the size of a quarter on my ankle to covering my lower leg in about 10 hours.  Usual treatments and I’ll probably be home again in a day or so from now, but what the [...]

Part two of the light posting recently has been that I’ve been up and down a lot due to medical stuff of sorts – more that I’ve been taking a fair amount of stuff, including some powerful antibiotic therapy to Make Sure the Bugs Died and also Lasix for fluid buildup and it’s really knocked [...]

This is the sort of thing that was worrying me about my infections back at the beginning of summer.

Got home from the hospital late Friday in time to attend a family dinner (which was very nice with all the trimmings) but have not been up to much.  Way too tired.  Slept most of Saturday, except to fix some problems that the kids had had with the DVD player in the bedroom (they’d put [...]

Came down with a 101F fever on Tuesday morning after several highly stressful days, and I’m once again in the hospital with an attack of the leg cellulitis.    The docs are now trying a shotgun approach; a whole bunch of different bugkillers to try to kill the damn thing.   Words can’t express how unhappy I [...]

The infectious disease guy and I had a set-to over future treatment; he wants to do things lighter and shorter, and I made it bloody clear that I had had *enough* of hospitals and infections, and I wanted him to blow the bug up real good and dead and make sure it’s Dead Dammit, and [...]

Still on antibiotics; the levaquin seems to be giving me terrible muscle cramps (kept me up all hours last night and is doing so again tonight) and i’m stopping taking the things, as I’m noting contraindications on it that mention tendonitis and worse.  So my last dose was last night, and I’m saying the hell [...]

…of too much to do and too little time to do it in. Jumping back into work on Wednesday, I found that our phone and internet was intermittently out, and we found and fixed the culprit.  That sort of thing, when you’re working from home, really strangles you, and both Susan and I were doing [...]

Back from the hospital. The docs have me on two antibiotics, and I will most likely be on one for a while. But I’m home, and I’ll be at the con. Mostly, it was a boring and painful process of IVs, blood draws, pokings and proddings, most of which I don’t want to go over [...]

The cellulitis has come roaring back over the last two days – this time in my RIGHT leg, mid-shin.  I’ve basically been ordered back to the hospital.  Dammit dammit dammit.   I started that bactrim script that the doc gave me, but it’s not cutting the mustard. My guess is that they will send me home [...]