Yeah,
The, uh, bite on my arm is getting bigger.
It's measuring exactly two inches by two inches and is now touching the crease of my elbow. The entire red area itches or alternately tingles and my shoulder and forearm feel sore though I'm not sure if that is real pain, pain from nursing the arm or psychosomatic.
I took another antibiotic, not amoxicillin anymore, they changed it to sulfamethoxazole. One at 4:45 and now one at 10 pm. The next one when I wake up and my appointment is at 10:45. I also took two more benadryl as the nurse practitioner who saw me suggested I not take more than that.
I have also drawn another series of dashes around the red area as the other ones I drew have rubbed off. Sharpies are not what they used to be.
I took my temperature, it was 98.6. which is 1 degree above my healthy normal but nothing serious.
At the clinic today the woman who saw me pushed on the bite quite a lot and said it looked like a bite that had gotten slightly infected. She tried to get it to drain some. She said tomorrow it would either be much better or much worse.
Why does being healthy not keep one from infection and/or toxin?
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