As i have alluded to several people in PMs and on a couple of threads I haven't been doing to well for about a week now and been out of work as well. This all started a week ago Sunday when i noticed a zit (not saying where, but i wish it where my face and not where it was) and popped it, and didn't think anything off it until it started to hurt a little bit on Monday night. Well Tuesday I went to work and as the day went on i got to be hurting more and more that certain positions where next to impossible to get comfortable enough to work on patients or write charts. Well i pushed through it including driving a organ transplant harvest team, No i didn't drive the leg going back as we had to run code 3 priority 1 (Lights & Sirens and lots of diesel) and I knew i couldn't handle that as I was hurting to much (yes i do know my limits when it comes to that and I'm not going to risk anyone's life). Anyways we got off that organ harvest at 9 am (shift change is 7am) I handed the on coming medic the keys and went straight home and passed out with a heat pack on the now much larger zit.
Well that afternoon I couldn't handle it anymore and I really didn't want to go to the ER as i spend to much time in them at work, but my primary doctor was gone for the day (gee wish i could leave work at 3pm). Well at the ER I got back pretty quick considering they where at saturation (I think my employer and my profession had something to do with it). Well I got taken care of very well of and was given a good amount of pain medication and a separate health dose of antibiotics. After all of that was in the Doctor made a incision and removed a fair amount of infection, and said that it was between the size of a baseball and softball for area effected and if i had let it go a day more i could have ended up in the ICU for septic shock
. That was a shocker as i didn't think it was that bad, boy was i wrong. Well since then i have been laid up and on very powerful antibiotics and pain killers (which is something i rarely take anything stronger then advil for anything) which i had to back off of because they were messing with my mind. Today I had my second follow up appointment and the doctor is not happy with the way its draining and healing so i was referred to a surgeon that specializes in wound care and treatment for a reeval, and have been told that i can expect to have it opened and cleaned out tomorrow. With that news even though its not official yet till i see the surgeon, but im probably going to be out of work another week maybe more as I really dont heal that fast.
Tooth
P.S. Now the really bad news is my ability to dive has been revoked by my doctor with strict orders to not do so until it is fully healed. That really doesnt make me happy at all because I have been religiously working on my bouyancy in doubles with stage/deco tanks along with drills for my upcoming Extended Range class. Needless to say this is going to set me back a fair amount. Then also because of the amount of PTO i have burned and still may use till i can put temp disability into effect. I may now not be able to make the august coral spawn trip because of this glitch in the road.
Edited by Scubatooth, 16 February 2009 - 10:56 PM.
