I was looking forward to Easter when suddenly chills began to run up my spine. Before I knew it, I was running a fever. A couple of days later, and my leg looked like this:

Lovely. OK, so cellulitis is no big deal, get some antibiotics on board and things will be sweet, right?

Not so fast. The antibiotic the guys at the hospital decided to prescribe is apparently pretty harsh on veins. So much so that my vein ‘blew out’, that is, caused a clot in the vein and caused my arm to swell. Wonderful.

Okey doke, so they put a central line in to get the antibiotics in. Problem solved? No. Next, I developed an abcess which had to be removed.

Here’s a shot 10 days after surgery. The term “perfuse pus” and “bucketloads” were used by the docs. Apparently the abcess was the size of a grapefruit. Delicious!

And here’s another shot a few days later:

Every day, the wound is packed with Algisite, to stop it knitting at the top. This allows it to heal from the bottom up.

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