Thanks for all of the offlines, cards, e-mails, prayers, thoughts and well wishes. I am starting to feel half way human again and hope to be back to terrorizing and pilfering chocolates from all of you soon. As far as what exactly I had, all I know is that the doctor's called it Cellulitist, which is a pretty broad term for an infection from a bug bite, spider bite, blister, scratch, etc. Now personally I hate that term. Cellulitist has to do with a skin infection but to me it sounds too much like that word "cellulite". I have visions of all of you scratching your heads and thinking, 'Vic is suffering from moldy cottage cheese thighs?'
But things are improving and I finish up the last of the anti-biotics this week. I will be glad for that as I have had a few side effects from them, one of which I learned was that it can cause problems with tendons, which explains the ankle tendon messed up now. The blood tests came out okay, there were a couple that weren't in yet but the doc seems to think everything is in order. I am a bit anemic though, which didn't surprise me, I am not a big meat eater.
Stink Pot the cat has bounced back and forth between, sprawling on or near me constantly or total aloofness, (yeah...she is the same as ever).
I hope to catch up with your blogs this week, and find out what has been going on in your lives. I can't have ya having too much fun without me! lol.....Take care and thanks...
Ahhhhhh you are more then welcome Viccles, we are just tickled to see you up and about. Keep following Drs. orders....BTW.......did ya dind you a young intern?????? LOL Hugssssss
ReplyDeleteyehhhhh - peg leg is on the rebound - ah matey me and da mporg and da pirate Brat been savin da dishes for ya - and yes rimpled thieghs is the first thing came to mind when i heard that word - cell-u sumtin- -yes its just terribble when ur leg hurts ur fingers can't type rofl- -i knew u'd bounce back- getting fresh pape out to make new plunder and pillage chart[scheduel] i bet u had a case of brusselottalitis-anyway welcome home
ReplyDeleteI am so happy to hear that you are on the mend!!!!! Time to party!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteWe've been miserable without you, Vic! It's like the sun went out of the sky. :) I'm glad you're on the mend. Those must be some serious antibiotics if they mess with your tendons. Not nice.
ReplyDeleteSo happy you back on the mend..a big hugs
ReplyDeletebe very careful and finish all the meds
Happy youre feeling so much better. Hugs!
ReplyDeleteWow Vic, so good to hear from you! And boy DO I MISS yer bag of wit girl! LOL @ Yar, I think yah gotta new nickname there Vic. Just hoping yer doing the do, getting some R & R, and up and about SOON! Morgie misses yah! So glad to hear yer up on the up swing! Hugs
ReplyDeleteWelcome back Viccles... I was wondering if chocolate is good for anemia? lol {{{mopsy hugs}}}
ReplyDeleteI am so happy to know you are getting better and will be reading all our blogs soon..it hasnt been the same without your humour. Hugs!
ReplyDeleteSkin Staph....ouch ouch ouch.
ReplyDeleteSo glad you're feeling better Pinky. Sure have missed you. ((Huggles))
I have had a couple of bouts of Cellulitis and you may be interested in this article.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.bbc.co.uk/health/ask_the_doctor/cellulitisinfection.shtml
OK thats the serious stuff over hurry up back I can't find any one to annoy without them getting upset!
Glad to hear you're better and hope all continues to go well...been missin ya sompthin turrble:):):)
ReplyDelete*Fixes Vic a big ol' steak*...
ReplyDeleteGlad you are doing so much better!
I have never heard of that before so leave it to you to catch something unusual. Hope you get over it quickly!
ReplyDeleteThat's a very good point, Judy...leave it to Viccles to get some disease no one has ever heard of until she gets it...I'm surprised they didn't name it after her...something along the lines of Quinquefasciatus Viral Envicclesphalitis...
ReplyDeleteGood Lord Suzi, I would not like to get that cause I could not even say it. lol
ReplyDeleteCrappers Suzi I've problems reading that term let alone trying to say it. I'll just say QVE...lol
ReplyDeleteI'm just glad you are on the mend Vic. When You told me that word on the phone I just figured you had to much drugs in ya...I was thinking it more like flesh eating disorder which thank God it wasn't.
Ya scared me half to death. Give Stinkpot a good rub whenever she decides to stay put long enough.
xoxo
well, being a backwoods herbalist doctor I am real familiar with that there stuff you had.....they was being kind when they told you it was some kinda fat leg disease....only thing that can cause that kinda infection is the ol' choclat spider.......yep......I have seed it a hunert times roun hyear......ifn you eat a lot of choclat, as I have heerd you do, that ol' choclat spider can jump up and getye for ya know it@! hits a good thang they caught it for hit got to fer on ye leg Viccky....that ol' choclat spider can shore make a mess of a fellers legs and such and can dern near turn ye agen choclat.....ahm shore sum folks on hyear have heard of spider vains in yor laigs.....jest a side efact of that ol' choclat spider....I rekon you orta be ok now and I rekon ahm glad fer it :)
ReplyDeleteOMG I can't believe I just sat here and got half way thru hillbilly's medical diagnosis thinking he was onto something about a chocolate spider which was believable he goes on about spider veins...What a spaz I am ...AND this will be the only gosh dern time I'll admit anything. Talk about gullable. hahaha
ReplyDeleteOne for hillbilly.
Misty, Misty, Misty...*walks off, shaking head*...
ReplyDeletewonders why they call it Cellulitist?? shoulda called it sumpin else....bugbiteitus, ....Hands you a can of deep woods off, and a bounty dryer sheet to carry in yer pocket. and a citronella plant to carry around....lets see what else can I git ya to keeps them bugs and spiders away???? Glad your on the mend.
ReplyDeleteGets popcorn....
ReplyDeleteVic, "moldy cottage cheese thighs" ???? I'm really glad that you are OK and are doing better. It sure seems strange how these skin infections are popping up all over the place in the past year. We had some staph infections hit the schools up here early last school year something terrible. Schools were actually shut down and entirely disinfected before the kids were let back in.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad your up and running again. I hope you find a way to get that anemia under control. Hopefully vitamins will help. I'd suggest spinach but that's probably harder to handle than meat, lol.
Stinkpot is making sure you'll be around for a long long time so she has to keep your heart jumping once in a while hehe.
ReplyDeleteChocolate eh? Hmmmm runs to hide my stash
Glad you're feeling much better, I'll just bring over some Glycosylated hemoglobin or if you prefer how about some raw liver to get your blood count up -smiles.
Oooops ducks the flying plates