I've dodged a bullet and received a small cross that's responding well to antibiotics. Not bad for a two-day stay in the hospital.
Last Thursday morning I drove to the local emergency room after an insistent and frightening pain settled in the center of my chest. I'll spare you all the adventures and just note that tests revealed it wasn't a heart attack; if it happens again the first step will be a full gastrointestinal workup.
While lounging around in the hospital I picked up a nasty case of cellulitis on my left leg. Cellulitis is a strep or staph infection of the skin that in rare cases turns into the famous "flesh-eating bacteria" malady. While I suppose I wouldn't mind having a shiny new plastic leg, I'm grateful that this stuff is responding well to cephalexin.
The best part of the whole stay was that my roommate wasn't a TV person! The damned TV wasn't on even once until I was packing up to leave Friday night and his son wanted to watch some "game" in which big guys skate around an ice rink and punch each other. Aside from phone calls, nurse visits and friendly comments back and forth, a delicious silence filled the room and allowed for some fruitful prayer and reading.
Posted by billw at November 11, 2003 04:31 AM