Warning, Swimming Can Be Hazardous To Your Health!!!

by WoZzLe on Feb.24, 2009, under Health, Personal

Originally uploaded by wozzl3

Since suffering a ruptured brain aneurysm in December of 2000 that left me residual Right sided deficit, swimming has been something that I had not done a lot of. So when going to the Rokewood (a small town near Ballarat) pool / Dam with some friends I thought I may have found a place a could go back to. How wrong I was, During the time I spent in the water it turns out a microscopic bug found its way into my right leg. Apparently via some edema that I had around my ankle (minor heart failure).

The photo was taken on day 1 of a 2 week Hospital stay, currently the leg looks worse than the photo after a week at home on a couple of different oral antibiotics.

Cellulitis is a diffuse infection of connective tissue with severe inflammation of dermal and subcutaneous layers of the skin. Cellulitis can be caused by normal skin flora or by exogenous bacteria, and often occurs where the skin has previously been broken: cracks in the skin, cuts, blisters, burns, insect bites, surgical wounds, or sites of intravenous catheter insertion. Skin on the face or lower legs is most commonly affected by this infection, though cellulitis can occur on any part of the body. The mainstay of therapy remains treatment with appropriate antibiotics.

Read this and be scared

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2 Comments for this entry

Daphne McKenzie
May 28th, 2009 on 10:04 am
This is my 3rd attempt at this message to you, so I hope this time it’s lucky.

I’m keen on getting more info on your leg condition pictured. My email address is “noted”. If you’re happy to give me a little more info (type of antibiotics used, etc) I’d be most grateful for an email from you so I can email you (either using this blog or directly if you can give me an address)with a couple of queries. Reason is my mum’s in hospital with a infection that looks so much like yours it’s amazing. And the doctors so far can’t diagnose it.

Cheers, and fingers crossed….
Michelle
May 31st, 2009 on 10:10 am
some more interesting reading

http://www.aafp.org/afp//AFPprinter/20070815/539.html

http://www.skininfection.com/AboutSkinInfection/CellulitisAndErysipelas.html