May 30, 2008

• TB Test and Infected Finger

  
  

  I was so good,   after scraping the knuckle of my index finger off, basically, the top skin anyway,  ...at keeping it clean and covered.   That was until I ran out of band aids.  
  
  I think it's infected.  
  
  The knuckle is all red and swollen and it feels tight and when I bent my finger I think some pus came out under the scab, which is right exactly on the top bendy part of the finger,  right exactly where, if you knocked on a door with just the index finger,  the part that touches the door,  the part with the accordion skin.
  
  I had to go to the ER for an infected finger,  a hangnail,  a few months ago.   It was a holiday weekend and the Dr. was on vacation or otherwise unaccessible so I went.   They gave me a lung x ray and everything  because I had a slight cough,  and they said I was wise to come in because the finger was infected.
  
  Since I'll be at a medical facility today and will be having a TB test I will ask the nurse to look at my finger and I may need to see my Dr. if the can see me this afternoon,  or a Dr.   I hate to take antibiotics.... oh,   another reason I went to the ER that time is because it was the time when the MRSA virus was all over the news.
  
  I just rememberd MRSA ... .... shit, 
  
  .......I gotta get a new box of Bandaids!!!!
  

  
  

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