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boskydragon wrote:
Oh, Kyrin, I’m so sorry! 🙁 We’re having black widow issues right now, but at least they’re not aggressive! This guy sounds worse than a brown recluse. I hope this will not be a long-term wound; that website was kinda creepy.
I know it said if it wasn’t treated it could take years to heal..
Maebnus3 wrote:tc_cat333 wrote:I’m not sure if by “hobo spider” you mean the name of it or that you don’t like the spider… I have never heard of a Hobo spider before.. 😛 Anyway I hope it stops hurting soon so you can get on with life… Update us..
See here for some info. There’s pics of the spider and what some bites can look like.
Hope you’re better soon, Kyrin!
God I hate spiders.. I remember once having this huge spider in my room that I couldn’t even get a pringles can over… *shivers*
Well now the docs are thinking it could be a staph infection, bottom line it doesn’t really matter. I am still going to have an abcess, it is still going to hurt, and I am still going to be off work for at least week.
So cause is really of no matter to me at the moment.
Got a new IV antibiotic this morning, and a new oral antibiotic. We’ll see. Also picked up FMLA papers from work, since it is clear I will be out more than 3 days.
This is going to make my next paycheck really sad looking, bah! On top of that, I am in mega pain, and they have both hands mummified, one for the injury and one to cover the IV port still in my hand, because they will likely be having me come in daily for IV antibiotics for a few days longer. Yay.
And on top of all that, we’re having a heat wave and it is hotter than Hades…over 100 degrees here…blech! I hate being hot, and the old ’79 truck we are currently running around in has no air conditioning at all, just 2X60, which in these temps means diddily.
I am also developing a heat induced headache, think this day could get any worse?
Hope everyone else is doing better.
Kyrin
Oooh boy. That does sound like a lot of fun. NOT really…I feel bad for you. And I know about it being hot and not having air condition….I did it for about 10 years. I finally got the guts to get a car with it after that.
Sorry to hear about that Kyrin, I hope that it all turns out for the best. That is a nasty Spider. I don’t think we have them here… *goes to check around the house*
Sorry to hear this, Kyrin. Hope you are well soon.
Where in Idaho are you? I’m in western Washington and the local newscasts give us the Idaho forecasts. It sounds brutal and with no a/c to boot.Wishing you the best ESPECIALLY with the FMLA stuff. I have heard about them here and they can be a bear to work with
laphon1 wrote:Sorry to hear this, Kyrin. Hope you are well soon.
Where in Idaho are you? I’m in western Washington and the local newscasts give us the Idaho forecasts. It sounds brutal and with no a/c to boot.There was no A/C in the truck, the house has it, but of course not less than 2 hours after getting home, a huge windstorm blew through and took out my power. So no A/C here either, the generator can only handle the computers, water pump and TV. We really need to save up for one of those huge ones that run on propane and powers the whole house.
We’re in Buhl, Idaho, which is roughly 150 miles from Boise.
Hand is still miserable, it’s gonna be a long weekend and week. It doesn’t help that there is no way to predict how long this will take to heal. I really don’t need to be out of work for weeks. So I really hope I will be back in the trenches by the Monday after next.
Thanks for the well wishes, worst thing is I can’t even paint right now, because I would have to hold the uni with my left hand, and its the one that is all buggered up.
Kyrin
Kyrin wrote:Hand is still miserable, it’s gonna be a long weekend and week. It doesn’t help that there is no way to predict how long this will take to heal. I really don’t need to be out of work for weeks. So I really hope I will be back in the trenches by the Monday after next.
Thanks for the well wishes, worst thing is I can’t even paint right now, because I would have to hold the uni with my left hand, and its the one that is all buggered up.
Kyrin
Oh boy. Hang in there! 🙁 Stay indoors where it’s cool: heat can speed up the formation of an abscess, but you don’t need any more physical stress right now.
Regarding painting: Would it help you to put your PYO on a lazy susan? It doesn’t let you get to the underside of surfaces, but it would let you spin that little rascal to whichever side you wanted to work on. Target should have some little eight-inch ones that are pretty convenient.
Good luck!
Barrdwing wrote:Kyrin wrote:Hand is still miserable, it’s gonna be a long weekend and week. It doesn’t help that there is no way to predict how long this will take to heal. I really don’t need to be out of work for weeks. So I really hope I will be back in the trenches by the Monday after next.
Thanks for the well wishes, worst thing is I can’t even paint right now, because I would have to hold the uni with my left hand, and its the one that is all buggered up.
Kyrin
Oh boy. Hang in there! 🙁 Stay indoors where it’s cool: heat can speed up the formation of an abscess, but you don’t need any more physical stress right now.
Regarding painting: Would it help you to put your PYO on a lazy susan? It doesn’t let you get to the underside of surfaces, but it would let you spin that little rascal to whichever side you wanted to work on. Target should have some little eight-inch ones that are pretty convenient.
Good luck!
Those are good ideas. Thanks.
Update: They opened it up today, lots and lots of puss, and the amount of squeezing my doc had to do to get it all made it hurt worse than it had before. They doped me up with Femerol, then followed that up with some Darvocet. Yep I was a bit loopy, good thing I wasn’t driving. It didn’t do a whole to kill the pain, but it made me not care so much. 🙂
I went home and took a nap, though I could probably sleep some more, but for now my hand hurts a bit too much to really allow it, so I’ve taken some more pain meds and once those kick in, I’ll head back to bed.
For now I’m hurting alot, but I am hoping that by tomorrow it will hurt less.
My poor thumb is now black and purple with an incision in it that almost reaches the bone, that was how deep the puss pocket went. They also packed it with gauze so it would stay open. Overall I wouldn’t want to repeat this, ever.
Downside, depending on whether they were able to get it all, I may have to see a specialist and get knocked out. I really really hope that doesn’t happen, we’ll know tomorrow.
Kyrin
I hope they got all the puss out too for your sake. A few months back I had a boil on the back of my thigh. I had to go in to the doctors office for three or four days in a row so they could change the packing out and squeeze on it to make sure they got all the puss out. 😯 All without numbing, even when they lanced it the first time. No fun at all.
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