Well, it all began with this.
Sorry for the weird pics, it's hard to aim a camera with your left hand and without looking in the visor.
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Two days before this picture, I only had 3-4 stumps, and it was somewhat red around, like 1-2 square inch. I first thought it was some kind of chemical reaction from work, that some nasty stuff could have crawled it's way in my glove. Or even some kind of mass insect bites. It was somewhat scratchy, like a mosquito bite.
The nurse at work and the doctor I saw concluded it was a "contact dermatitis". I was prescribed some cortisone-based cream, and went home like this. A few hours after appying the cream, my wrist started swelling. (quite normal I thought, its the cream) But 2 days later it was swelled and red all around, I was like, uh-oh... One day when I woke up, some skin on my wrist looked very dry and flaky. Plus, the redness had spreaded...
You can see the red area up to my elbow where the infection has spreaded:
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As you can see, i had to stop modding my computer because of that thing.
Now it's a skin infection... Maybe my skin has weakened because of the dermatitis, or maybe I was poisoned since the begining... I have an IV hooked on my left wrist, and I carry the pump and antibiotic bag around in a waist bag. Plus, my whole arm is itching like hell, and I can't scratch it. :| Going crazy... My wrist and top of hand are swollen enough so it kinda hurts/pulls when I bend it. This makes basic computing (let alone gaming!), driving (stick shift), dressing (don't forget the damn IV tube) quite hard... Plus, I'm right-handed.
Worst thing is, I don't know where it comes from! I'll have to carry around my IV thingie for 2 more days, after that it'll be oral antibiotics... I can't wait to get through with that.
Sorry for the weird pics, it's hard to aim a camera with your left hand and without looking in the visor.
Pic
Two days before this picture, I only had 3-4 stumps, and it was somewhat red around, like 1-2 square inch. I first thought it was some kind of chemical reaction from work, that some nasty stuff could have crawled it's way in my glove. Or even some kind of mass insect bites. It was somewhat scratchy, like a mosquito bite.
The nurse at work and the doctor I saw concluded it was a "contact dermatitis". I was prescribed some cortisone-based cream, and went home like this. A few hours after appying the cream, my wrist started swelling. (quite normal I thought, its the cream) But 2 days later it was swelled and red all around, I was like, uh-oh... One day when I woke up, some skin on my wrist looked very dry and flaky. Plus, the redness had spreaded...
You can see the red area up to my elbow where the infection has spreaded:
Pic 2
Pic 3
As you can see, i had to stop modding my computer because of that thing.
Now it's a skin infection... Maybe my skin has weakened because of the dermatitis, or maybe I was poisoned since the begining... I have an IV hooked on my left wrist, and I carry the pump and antibiotic bag around in a waist bag. Plus, my whole arm is itching like hell, and I can't scratch it. :| Going crazy... My wrist and top of hand are swollen enough so it kinda hurts/pulls when I bend it. This makes basic computing (let alone gaming!), driving (stick shift), dressing (don't forget the damn IV tube) quite hard... Plus, I'm right-handed.
Worst thing is, I don't know where it comes from! I'll have to carry around my IV thingie for 2 more days, after that it'll be oral antibiotics... I can't wait to get through with that.
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