So I do have Cellulitis

Just as my far-away practitioner, penni, surmised.

Cellulitis (sel-u-LI-tis) is a potentially serious bacterial infection of your skin. Cellulitis appears as a swollen, red area of skin that feels hot and tender, and it may spread rapidly.

Skin on the face or lower legs is most commonly affected by this infection, though cellulitis can occur on any part of your body. Cellulitis may be superficial — affecting only the surface of your skin — but cellulitis may also affect the tissues underlying your skin and can spread to your lymph nodes and bloodstream.

Left untreated, the spreading bacterial infection may rapidly turn into a life-threatening condition. That's why it's important to recognize the signs and symptoms of cellulitis and to seek immediate medical attention if they occur.

Now isn't that special.

Comments

[jeffatwood]

yummy!!!!!

[Emory]

Ack! Are you ok?! Take all your meds and get better soon!

[Matt Tullos]

I'm sure I'll be fine. Just a postmodern form of leprosy i guess:-) Just been thinking-- hmmm... this is a new experience. I'll be back at the doctor tomorrow and if they don't see any improvement in my neck and ear they'll pull out the big guns...

[~m2~]

matt!! are you kidding?

of course you're not!

just think, mine was on my upper lip and in my nose. talk about being pretty :) i have used all the leprosy jokes already (but mine was lip-rosy) and it has taken a week of extrememly strong antibiotics and ointments to have me look a little less than a matt groenig cartoon. i can finally go back to the restaurant tomorrow, and stop ringing my bell announcing "unclean!"

feel better - again, take your meds. our dear friend "rhymes with kerouac" has had a bad enough bout with it that he was on i.v. meds for the last couple of weeks...makes you wonder if things are contagious in cyberspace?

[Matt]

Wow! Is that not spooky?

You may be onto something-- germs from bookmarked sites! Yikes. The most entertaining thing has been people seeing me and totally doing a double take, even doctors.

As the John Merrick would say-- "I am not an Animal! I am a human beeeeeing!"

Tomorrow I return to the doctor and see if I'm 50% better or they'll uh... I don't know... they just are hoping for 50%. And how do they judge that. Have they measured my lesions? Should I try to be 50% less cranky? Should I look less like Jimmy Durante?

I don't know.

Maybe they'll cut my ear off and if they do there would be plenty of sycronisity in that procedure- My all-time favorite artist is none other than Vicent Vangoh!

[greg]

Hey man,
Doesn't like much fun. Hang there! I really like your poem "Away" by the way.

[john]

Matt, you missed the scapegoat of the day...blame it on Katrina and Rita. There has got to be a way to tie that in.

[matt tullos]

I think actually I got it from watching the huricane coverage to closely.