So, I was home sick for two weeks with the RSV/Flu/Norovirus tripple whammy. Anything I tried to eat exited from one end or another rapidly. Plus eating or drinking more than a bite or two at a time left me nauseous. I pretty much lived on watered down fruit juice, and cheese and crackers. Very much not fun. I had an open sore on my little toe that I pretty much ignored in my misery.
So Karma infected the toe, and I noticed that my toe and half my foot was starting to turn unnatural colors. So drove to urgent care clinic. they said to to real ER post haste. Went there and when they got a look at it called in Podiatry and Infectious diseases. Not good.
Started on heavy duty IV antibiotics while the podiatrist poked and prodded at it. This was friday evening, so MRI was closed for weekend, which they wanted to see before they did surgery, basically, t0 see how many bones were infected before they started removing things.
Spent all of saturday and most of sunday in an ER room waiting for a regular room to open up getting crappy food and round the clock antibiotics. finally moved to a regular hospital room late sunday night.
Waited until early afternoon to finally get the MRI. Yup, bones are bad, time to chop chop. they snuck me onto the OR schedule last case on Monday. removed all the bones in my little toe, and then sewed it back up. So now I have nine and a half toes left.
Couple of days of continuing IV antibiotics and dressing changes, finally escaped the hospital thursday afternoon.
Side bitching: Hospital had me on a diabetic diet. To them that mean everything was sweetened with sucralose or another fake sugar. I told them that sucralose upset my digestion system and to give me regular foods unsweetened or with real sugar. So while the main meal was acceptable, the juices and desserts were poisoned with sucralose. Fortuntely I had a pocket full of powdered lime juice packets to flavor my water.
Been home a week now. Go back monday AM to get sutures removed, and see if I can resume work and other normal activites.