Comments on: Once bitten…….

By: Kate

Kate — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 12:34:24 +0000

Apparently this kind of tissue infection can re-occur as well so we are still monitoring just in case!! Toria was off work for the week too!

By: fracas

fracas — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 03:35:25 +0000

Hi again!

She’s still on crutches because she can’t put weight on her foot; it still hurts. Thanks for the tip on the itchy skin and temperatures; I’ll remember that. Oddly, about two weeks before this happened to her foot, she had received a bug bite (underneath her eye) that swole up and they said was infected. They gave her a topical antibiotic that time and it went down. This scary episode (they actually forbade her to work and put her on bedrest with her foot elevated for three days) was the result of a simple scrape that got either staph or strep into it… kind of like what happens with flesh-eating disease. It actually reminded me of that when we were watching it.

Just goes to show though, that the things we blog about might not seem like much but end up being important to someone who reads it!

Thanks again.

By: Kate

Kate — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 15:26:46 +0000

Fracas – oh how worrying for you and your daughter – your first comment expressed your fears (just like mine) of your children getting something like this – and for it to happen just a short time later is dreadful!
I do hope she feels better soon – Toria had itchy skin problems afterwards plus strange temperatures but – she is fine now thank goodness.
I’m glad I posted about it now although I was in two minds at the time – at least it helped!!!!

By: fracas

fracas — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 21:13:14 +0000

I have come to thank you for blogging that. This past week, my daughter (who had a scrape on her foot) came to me and showed me how, over only a couple of hours her foot had swollen, she couldn’t walk and there was red patches spreading from both sides of the scab. Because I’d read your post, I immediately thought of cellulitis and looked it up, took her to the hospital and indeed it was. It was quite bad actually. She is still not able to walk several days later. Been through the IV antibiotics with the take home unit on her arm and now on oral meds. She’d been wearing heels that night and first thought it was just that… dancing on heels, etc. wait till morning and see if it’s better, but because I thought it might be cellulitis, I made her go then and that turned out to be wise. The thing was spreading as we watched while she was on the IV. Scary.

So… thanks for the post! <3

By: Kate

Kate — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 15:53:11 +0000

Barbara – Thank you – it might explain it as when she was bitten she was walking the dog by the lake…

Gitwizard – She is much better now thanks she thought it might have been a horse fly at first but Barbara’s theory does make sense.
I couldn’t do your job – ants love eating me …. but I do love peonies even if their beauty is a little short lived!!!

By: gitwizard

gitwizard — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 13:51:38 +0000

Ouch! that looks very nasty, i'm working in a flower nursery at the moment and was weeding peonies last week, apparently red ants love peonies, and I kept finding them running all over my hands, the bites were extremely irritating but not a health concern. Lymes Disease is a big problem in Europe these days, but if your Daughter had been been bitten by a tick she would know about it as they have to be physically pulled out. That looks like what my Mother suffered years ago when she was bitten by a horse flie, but again, I think she would have known about it 'cos they're huge! Hope she's recovered now. gitwizard´s last blog post..YOU ARE SO CRAP T-MOBILE!!!

By: Barbara

Barbara — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 10:36:00 +0000

Last week I was reading an article in my newspaper saying that there was a strain of mosquito now in the south of England whose bite could cause Cellulitis. Maybe this was behind your daughters problem. They advised staying away from stagnant water. Barbara´s last blog post..Back From Holiday

By: Geri Atric

Geri Atric — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 08:32:45 +0000

P.S. Sorry, I mean Lyme's Disease, not Lime's (!) Geri Atric´s last blog post..SCOTTISH DAY OUT

By: fracas

fracas — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 04:08:18 +0000

Tiger Balm? I'm going to try that. Thanks! fracas´s last blog post..Sometimes being frigid is a good thing

By: Geri Atric

Geri Atric — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 14:28:49 +0000

Ouch, what a horrible experience! I hope your daughter feels better soon. I wonder what it was.. ? Could it have been a tick? Has she been tested for Lime’s Disease?
My baby grandson is allergic to mosquito bites – each bite becomes a festering yellow blister that spreads into a large pulpy brown stain and then breaks open. Bah! He has a few now and the doctor has given him 2 antibiotic creams . Can’t see that they are helping much though.