"Asadi" wrote...
Well, what I thought was a minor cut to the bone on the top of my right bird
flipping finger took a turn for the worse.

I went with family and friends to the Hocking Hills State Forest in Ohio
(the most pretty piece of OH in my opinion).

The cut was a week old and healing nicely - or so I thought.

About two in the morning I woke up in severe pain. The hand looked like a
catchers mitt.

When I got out of bed the wife asked where I was going and I told her to the
bathroom and then to the hospital. Being somewhat 'in the know' as far as
emergency medical conditions go, I figured the finger was gone but that I
might, just might be able to save the hand.

The local ER (local my ass - in the next county) x-rayed, opened up the
finger, poked and prodded and scraped a bunch of stuff and filled me full
of antibiotics (got a bottle of them to boot) and told me to watch it very,
very close.

I'll follow up with my own DR tomorrow.

No kidding. The finger was big, green ,red and nasty...Swelling starting to
go down though and the pain is greatly diminished.

You can't be too careful on those fast moving infections....got that flesh
eating bacteria out there and all.

Damn, John (a phrase that is beginning to lose impact). All that pain and you're
still posting to roff. I speak for all when I say we are duly honored.

What with the price of gas these days, maybe you'd save money by moving closer
to the ER. Heal quickly and fully!
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TL,
Tim
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