THe Boil, THe ER Visit and The Lancing...........

I just felt I needed to write here a little. This past week has been a Major Pain..........Literally.

I got what I thought was an ingrown hair last Monday or so and I thought by Wednesday I had taken care of it. By Friday It was a pretty good size pimple (boil) with no head. I tried to squeeze it like I usually do but it was a stubborn one. LOL BY Friday evening it was so sore I had a hard time sitting. (this on is on my inner thigh). I took a hot shower and soaked the boil for like 15 mins., No luck. The heat must have made it spread cause within the hour it was twice the size as before and Very Warm now. and the redness was spreading. I had to do Sound for a Practice at my church for an hour and by time that was over more than half my inner thigh was red or shades of and extremely painful.

I ended up in the Er on Friday night around 9PM. LOL it didn't seem to busy but by the time I got in the back, but 2 ambulances and almost 4 hours later back there, for a total 7 1/2 hours. I finally got the boil lanced. My thigh was red now from my inner top thigh to about 1 inch from my knee and almost halfway to the top and also around the under side also.

I went in with what I thought was a boil and left with a Lanced Boil with Packing and Cellulitis.
The infection had spread so much that all of the red area was Definitely Inflamed and Very Sore to the touch. and ended up infected under my skin as well.

Well I had the Packing in there until Tuesday Afternoon. Now comes the hard part, it seems. How to get all the left over infection out of my leg. I still have an approx. 3" diameter hard spot on my leg around the Lanced spot. The Dr says the hardness is infection that is still in there and needs to drain.

That's the painful part. The Warm/Hot compresses are slow and definitely painful. I don't think I can take a bath and soak it. A shower is cool and Hot running water over it is OK but the Water doesn't hit it like I wish it did so that isn't very effective. :( :(

Well if anyone reads this and has any suggestions please comment and let me know what they are. I would MUCH appreciate it.

Well I am done rattling on.

God Bless U all.

Shorty G

Weigh In

Weigh in today Approx. 225 lbs

I had a abscess lanced over the weekend which in turn causes a lack of activity.

Lets see what next weeks weigh in turns out to be.

Weigh In Saturday 3/10/07

224.4 Lbs today UGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!