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Your worst infection?
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Cool..gross story time..
Golf Ball sized infection/ boil on my right elbow..no idea what caused it, but I let it go for far to long..went in to get it looked at..the doctor laid me on the table..put a large gauze pad under my elbow and sliced. The warm puss and fluid..blood pouring out felt so good! After a couple minutes..a good squeeze and some antibiotics..I was all better. Pretty gross looking though. Think about a shot glass filled with puss, and thats about the right amount.
That and food poisoning..I almost died in 1996 from a bad batch of salsa in TX...I was in and out of a coma for a few days..completely lost all fluids..and about 28lbs. in one week. I had a fever of 106 for about 24 hours..and had it coming out of both ends so bad the first day..I wanted to shoot myself in the head..if I had a gun..I would have. 8 hours of shivering and retching nude on a bathroom floor..covered in your own filth...worst feeling in the world.
I dont know for sure that it was the salsa..but I heard the next week, that 7 people died from something similar the week I was out of it. I had no concept of time...when I started feeling better..I thought about calling my unit on base, to tell them I would be late for rollcall..my girlfriend at the time informed me that I had slept in the hospital for 4 days, and that she had talked to my sargeant after he tracked me down. I think that counts as an infection.
Golf Ball sized infection/ boil on my right elbow..no idea what caused it, but I let it go for far to long..went in to get it looked at..the doctor laid me on the table..put a large gauze pad under my elbow and sliced. The warm puss and fluid..blood pouring out felt so good! After a couple minutes..a good squeeze and some antibiotics..I was all better. Pretty gross looking though. Think about a shot glass filled with puss, and thats about the right amount.
That and food poisoning..I almost died in 1996 from a bad batch of salsa in TX...I was in and out of a coma for a few days..completely lost all fluids..and about 28lbs. in one week. I had a fever of 106 for about 24 hours..and had it coming out of both ends so bad the first day..I wanted to shoot myself in the head..if I had a gun..I would have. 8 hours of shivering and retching nude on a bathroom floor..covered in your own filth...worst feeling in the world.
I dont know for sure that it was the salsa..but I heard the next week, that 7 people died from something similar the week I was out of it. I had no concept of time...when I started feeling better..I thought about calling my unit on base, to tell them I would be late for rollcall..my girlfriend at the time informed me that I had slept in the hospital for 4 days, and that she had talked to my sargeant after he tracked me down. I think that counts as an infection.
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I had real problems with infected ingrown toenails...bloody hell that hurt.
dozens of Doctors visits only made it worse
You have no idea how i cursed a streak when somebody moved something and i walked into it at night...
Eventually i just pulled out those nails myself, the shock of it all deadened the feeling and it felt soooo good after it was done
...would you believe 1/2" of the nail growing straight down into the toe?
- oh and i used the screwdriver of a Victronox SAK and the pliers of a Leatherman...
dozens of Doctors visits only made it worse
You have no idea how i cursed a streak when somebody moved something and i walked into it at night...
Eventually i just pulled out those nails myself, the shock of it all deadened the feeling and it felt soooo good after it was done
...would you believe 1/2" of the nail growing straight down into the toe?
- oh and i used the screwdriver of a Victronox SAK and the pliers of a Leatherman...
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I had real problems with infected ingrown toenails...bloody hell that hurt.
dozens of Doctors visits only made it worse
You have no idea how i cursed a streak when somebody moved something and i walked into it at night...
Eventually i just pulled out those nails myself, the shock of it all deadened the feeling and it felt soooo good after it was done
...would you believe 1/2" of the nail growing straight down into the toe?
- oh and i used the screwdriver of a Victronox SAK and the pliers of a Leatherman...
Ah geez...how in the world did yo
Ok, I passed out. I'm back now.
aside from a few nasty bouts of the ol Drip when i was in my early 20's (thanks Ex GF who stepped out and had sex with someone else and did'nt tell me..........) I've had a couple of cuts get red but then clear up on thier own.
Buddy of mine had a MASSIVE boil (carbuncle?) on his neck, alittle over the size of half a regulation baseball. He wanted me to pop it. I was morbidly fascinated enough that i would ahve donned the gloves, safety glasses and face mask and let er pop, but i thought it best he get it done by the Doc. Took my buddy to the ER and we all had fun as the humourous ER
DOC made his intern do the job....a quick poke with a 6 gauge needle and endless amounts of putrid yellowy white pus coiled out. . Another needle with saline to flush it out, more drainage, another flush, more drainage, then a healthy dose of horse pills .
I still wonder if itwould have burst like a Pizzapop commercial if we had squeezed it....
Buddy of mine had a MASSIVE boil (carbuncle?) on his neck, alittle over the size of half a regulation baseball. He wanted me to pop it. I was morbidly fascinated enough that i would ahve donned the gloves, safety glasses and face mask and let er pop, but i thought it best he get it done by the Doc. Took my buddy to the ER and we all had fun as the humourous ER
DOC made his intern do the job....a quick poke with a 6 gauge needle and endless amounts of putrid yellowy white pus coiled out. . Another needle with saline to flush it out, more drainage, another flush, more drainage, then a healthy dose of horse pills .
I still wonder if itwould have burst like a Pizzapop commercial if we had squeezed it....
I had one of those golf ball sized infections spontaneously show up on my thigh a couple years back. Had to get it lanced, drained, packed and repacked with gauze, the whole bit. No bites, cuts, nothing. Just got this bruise-like feeling on my leg one day, and it just got bigger.
This is the sort of thing that reminds you how fragile life is, especially in the not so distant past, when such a simple stupid thing could easily have killed me.
This is the sort of thing that reminds you how fragile life is, especially in the not so distant past, when such a simple stupid thing could easily have killed me.
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Cuts from a piece of broken Chert on my shin that sheared off when I was fossicking. Took months to come good and still have the scars. Our stoneage ancestors used Chert for making cutting tools even though it's only highly compressed mud. Those 100 million year old bacteria must have still been active
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I had real problems with infected ingrown toenails...bloody hell that hurt.
dozens of Doctors visits only made it worse
You have no idea how i cursed a streak when somebody moved something and i walked into it at night...
Eventually i just pulled out those nails myself, the shock of it all deadened the feeling and it felt soooo good after it was done
...would you believe 1/2" of the nail growing straight down into the toe?
- oh and i used the screwdriver of a Victronox SAK and the pliers of a Leatherman...
i did a similar procedure on one of my many ingrown toe-nails, except i used a leatherman and a coldsteel spike. i get ingrown toenails regularly, but i had a podiatrist (spelling?) cut off a chunk on both sides of each big toe and then he put acid on them to kill the root.
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aaahhhh mike.. whay did you have to go and say that dude...i have been debating on joining the "snipper club"..
Hey mike, 26 years ago for me - except for the fact he started cutting before the anaethesia, took effect, no problems then, none now! Don't sweat it, man.
Doc
samething here although by the time i had it done it was too late and it became a blood bourne infection but it was so early the mega antibiotics i was given made it better apparently, i even had some shots i had to take in the begining
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Never really any super bad infections but!
2 years ago on MY BIRTHDAY, my ex girlfriend accidentally slammed a wooden door on my right pointer finger and it got infected and really nasty. Turned all nice and blue/black with some pus. I still have a scar and the door actually has a dent where it hit my finger. I'm lucky it didn't break any thing and it healed in a few weeks.
Also, a few years ago I was getting my wisdom teeth pulled + 2 other extra teeth. They gave me an IV in my left forearm and the surgery went well. I went home and a few days later my entire vein where the IV was started getting hard. It eventually spread down my entire forearm and lasted about a month! I'm not sure why this happened and my dad talked to a few Docs and they said it was nothing to worry about..I guess just some dried blood.
This isn't an infection, but the biggest I've ever bruise I've seen in my life. I was playing tennis with a friend on a clay court, and I ran to the net to get a short ball and slid and kinda did a split. This pulled my left groin muscle and was EXTREMELY painful. I could barely walk for days and it was painful just to move. The bruise covered my entire inner thigh and back of my leg. It changed from a nasty blue/green to a puke yellow. I wish I had a picture of this!
2 years ago on MY BIRTHDAY, my ex girlfriend accidentally slammed a wooden door on my right pointer finger and it got infected and really nasty. Turned all nice and blue/black with some pus. I still have a scar and the door actually has a dent where it hit my finger. I'm lucky it didn't break any thing and it healed in a few weeks.
Also, a few years ago I was getting my wisdom teeth pulled + 2 other extra teeth. They gave me an IV in my left forearm and the surgery went well. I went home and a few days later my entire vein where the IV was started getting hard. It eventually spread down my entire forearm and lasted about a month! I'm not sure why this happened and my dad talked to a few Docs and they said it was nothing to worry about..I guess just some dried blood.
This isn't an infection, but the biggest I've ever bruise I've seen in my life. I was playing tennis with a friend on a clay court, and I ran to the net to get a short ball and slid and kinda did a split. This pulled my left groin muscle and was EXTREMELY painful. I could barely walk for days and it was painful just to move. The bruise covered my entire inner thigh and back of my leg. It changed from a nasty blue/green to a puke yellow. I wish I had a picture of this!
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I've had kidney stone attacks 4 times 
with more on the horizon. Does that count? 
Doc
with more on the horizon. Does that count? Doc
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...cut off a chunk on both sides of each big toe and then he put acid on them to kill the root.
I did that several times. In my case they used Phenol to kill the root bed. It only make the nail grow more gnarled and more troublesome.
Eventually i went to a surgeon who scraped the nail bed material of the bone. to prevent growth of the nail. It took 4 surgeries each to get it right. My toes were locally juiced to the hilt, but boy did i sweat when he did that...
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The biggest infection I ever had, and one I would never wish upon my worst enemy, would be the one I divorced 35 years ago.
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back in '05 i came home one night after work with a stiff, sore right knee. it started to swell some and hurt, and it was turning red. later that night, got worse so i went to the ER so i could at least work with it the next day. they drained it with a good sized needle, gave me anti-biotic and sent me home, said they were gonna test the fluid for infection.
Went to work the next day with a worse swollen knee, by this time it was too stiff to bend so i was kneeling on my good knee and had my bad leg straight out. got the job done, went home and wife said the Doc called. she said the Doc was freaked out that i went to work, and i was supposed to go the Doc's office next AM. by this time im running 103 fever and rising.
Next AM i wake up with my knee three sizes too big, very hot and red and there were red streaks down to my ankle and nearly up to my groin. go to my Doc, they immediately send me to a orthapedic specialist and im scheduled for surgery in 4 hours.
i have the surgery fine but when the anasthisia guy pulls the breathing tube i stop beathing, complete respiritory failure, lungs fill with fluid. i wake up in Infectious ICU with a tube down my throat.
Needless to say, i was a hurtin unit. they left my knee open two days and then took me in OR again to flush, clean, and zipper it up, this one goes better.
When i go home i get fit with IV site and have to inject myself 3 times a day for three weeks, with anti-biotic. the surgeon ordered 6 weeks but my insurance said i only needed three. nice guys . good news was, i got two weeks off work while the family pitched in with the family buisness! Only thing is, they (Doc's) have absolutley no idea how i got a Staph infection behind my kneecap.....
Thanks for the stories everybody! -------- Eric
Went to work the next day with a worse swollen knee, by this time it was too stiff to bend so i was kneeling on my good knee and had my bad leg straight out. got the job done, went home and wife said the Doc called. she said the Doc was freaked out that i went to work, and i was supposed to go the Doc's office next AM. by this time im running 103 fever and rising.
Next AM i wake up with my knee three sizes too big, very hot and red and there were red streaks down to my ankle and nearly up to my groin. go to my Doc, they immediately send me to a orthapedic specialist and im scheduled for surgery in 4 hours.
i have the surgery fine but when the anasthisia guy pulls the breathing tube i stop beathing, complete respiritory failure, lungs fill with fluid. i wake up in Infectious ICU with a tube down my throat.
Needless to say, i was a hurtin unit. they left my knee open two days and then took me in OR again to flush, clean, and zipper it up, this one goes better.
When i go home i get fit with IV site and have to inject myself 3 times a day for three weeks, with anti-biotic. the surgeon ordered 6 weeks but my insurance said i only needed three. nice guys . good news was, i got two weeks off work while the family pitched in with the family buisness! Only thing is, they (Doc's) have absolutley no idea how i got a Staph infection behind my kneecap.....
Thanks for the stories everybody! -------- Eric
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I had a bad flare-up from Chron's in 01. Thought it was just a small abscess on my backside. When they opened me up, the surgeon drained out a full liter of puss. It was a couple of months just fighting the life threatening infection, it was slow to heal. I had to have the packing repacked each day for 5 months before it finally healed over.
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As some of you may or may not know, the husband unit (Ghostwolf) went into the hospital the night of his birthday last month with antibiotic resistant staph infection in his arm. It had gone into massive cellulitis and he had swelling from his knuckles to his armpit and streaks all the way up the arm to the shoulder.
After they laid open the arm to drain it, they iv administered drugs to fight the infection and put him on mass doses of morphine because of the horrible side effects of the other drugs.
He was in the hospital for 3 days.
The cure almost killed him.
But it didnt.
He is too stubborn.
Luckily.
When they sent him home with that arm still open and draining and I had to flush and pack the nasty thing for 3 more days I wanted to kill him myself.
But I didnt.
Joe, please take care of yourself... you know you are one of our favorite people.
After they laid open the arm to drain it, they iv administered drugs to fight the infection and put him on mass doses of morphine because of the horrible side effects of the other drugs.
He was in the hospital for 3 days.
The cure almost killed him.
But it didnt.
He is too stubborn.
Luckily.
When they sent him home with that arm still open and draining and I had to flush and pack the nasty thing for 3 more days I wanted to kill him myself.
But I didnt.
Joe, please take care of yourself... you know you are one of our favorite people.