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Originally Posted by FishermanTim
It's amazing that a small injury can have such far-reaching implications in regard to your health.
I had a case of cellulitis in my leg that turned septic, and spend 5 days in the hospital. It wasn't the fever that scared me, as I've had fevers before and I can usually deal with them with OTC meds.
It was when my urine started coming out looking like black coffee that I realized I needed to go to the ER immediately.
Seems my cellulitis, which is typically a skin rash, had gone under the skin and reached the vein/artery in my leg. When I was admitted they told me that my kidneys were on the verge of shutting down.
After a 5 day round of pills and injections, I now have a permanent rash-scar on my leg and occaisional swelling of the leg, as the infection affected the blood vessels in that leg.
The clincher for me was that after all the testing, poking and prodding they still couldn't tell me where the cellulitis came from?
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My thing was actually really bad. I had 7 broken ribs and a punctured lung, fluid in the shoulder, could have been some back damage, and had some hip damage.
I was getting way better and the thing with the shoulder blade came out of nowhere. I had been back at work for two weeks and was getting ready to start going back to the gym at the time, then BAM!
I've had a couple of friends with cellulitis. They pretty much gave me the same treatment in the hospital. Seems innocuous on the surface, but that one's a BIATCH.
Today was the first day in 21 days that I haven't been on the five strongest antibiotics known to man. Glad to be done.
I got pretty lucky for sure.