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I’m just gonna put this entirely useless medical freakout under a cut because it is about an irrelevant skin infection and is also gross. no pictures though, we’re fine there. (it is basically a zit, but, I have Trauma here.)
sighhhh i had a lil MRSA infection on one finger like TEN Years ago and today I have a little weird blister RIGHT NEXT TO THE SCAR and i can’t stop freaking out because like am i going to go to urgent care for what is essentially a zit?? but if it’s mrsa it will eat me. AUGH.
fun note: the previous experience with MRSA is what made me develop/discover my sulfa allergy. why yes, i had full-body hives, it was so great!
well at this point it is just a very slightly swollen red area that’s sensitive, so I guess I will just monitor it. It began the exact same way, too– too much time with wet hands from doing dishes and washing hands gave me a tiny eczema flare and blistered the skin and then one of those tiny blisters between my fingers got infected! Maybe if I cover it in neosporin and put a band-aid on it’ll go away???
HILARIOUS that an extended era of over-strenuous handwashing in a time of paranoia about microbes should have set me up for this, but it just goes to show you that bacteria have no time for your shit. TAKE CARE OF THE SKIN OF YOUR HANDS, my friends. Take CARE of it. Your skin is a really really really important barrier.
I suppose I am glad that the finger I tore a hunk out of with a serrated bread knife two weeks ago is on the same hand but apparently impervious to bacteria, because if that enormous gouge had gotten infected I’d probably be dead by now. It’s nicely closed-up, and will be a permanent scar– it healed with a divot because I really tore actual flesh out of there that’s gone now– but it’s closed, and that’s what I care about.
I’m just gonna put this entirely useless medical freakout under a cut because it is about an irrelevant skin infection and is also gross. no pictures though, we’re fine there. (it is basically a zit, but, I have Trauma here.)
sighhhh i had a lil MRSA infection on one finger like TEN Years ago and today I have a little weird blister RIGHT NEXT TO THE SCAR and i can’t stop freaking out because like am i going to go to urgent care for what is essentially a zit?? but if it’s mrsa it will eat me. AUGH.
fun note: the previous experience with MRSA is what made me develop/discover my sulfa allergy. why yes, i had full-body hives, it was so great!
well at this point it is just a very slightly swollen red area that’s sensitive, so I guess I will just monitor it. It began the exact same way, too– too much time with wet hands from doing dishes and washing hands gave me a tiny eczema flare and blistered the skin and then one of those tiny blisters between my fingers got infected! Maybe if I cover it in neosporin and put a band-aid on it’ll go away???
HILARIOUS that an extended era of over-strenuous handwashing in a time of paranoia about microbes should have set me up for this, but it just goes to show you that bacteria have no time for your shit. TAKE CARE OF THE SKIN OF YOUR HANDS, my friends. Take CARE of it. Your skin is a really really really important barrier.
I suppose I am glad that the finger I tore a hunk out of with a serrated bread knife two weeks ago is on the same hand but apparently impervious to bacteria, because if that enormous gouge had gotten infected I’d probably be dead by now. It’s nicely closed-up, and will be a permanent scar– it healed with a divot because I really tore actual flesh out of there that’s gone now– but it’s closed, and that’s what I care about.
