Who says no pimples after puberty...
They DO come by once in a while and i got my worst pimple ever. But also my first taste of quick surgery. It started out as one of those regular underground pimples. Just above the bridge of my nose. But in 3 days it spread to puff up the area all the way around my right eye (see red area!!) yuck. It feels like one of those alien movies where the alien breeds in human brains and then they POP!! out after feeding on your organs. Too bad pictures don't capture the lumpy 3Dness of the infection!
After 2 trips to a regular doc... he gave up on normal anti-biotics so its off to the A&E ward! The A&E doc gave me 2 choices...
A. Get admitted! Intraveneous antibiotics... uh no thanks!
B. Dig that sucker out!
Almost needed an X-ray to check if its messing with the rest of my head. But in the end that wasn't necessary (phew... more waiting in line ugh)
But right away went for some local anesthesia surgety to get rid of puss inside the infection. Via digging:)
Its not squeezing or sucking as i might have thought... rather... DIGGING! with this mini-spoon! under my skin! it hurt... (top right side of the pic below is the spoon, bottom left is my blood and puss haha)
End result is some unfashionable bandage :) Meanwhile, 3 differnt types of antibiotcs are bubbling through my body. 2 types of pills and one from a jab to the butt:) I should be well in no time!
Well my thoughts... as i was waiting in the A&E I saw many people coming in in bad shape. limping, looking faint, looking weak. While i know its not always their fault, we all know that there are many things we can do to keep our health. Hospitals are a BAD place to be! Wealth cannot buy back health. Its as simple as that. Better being healthy in a 3 room flat, than wealthy but frail and limp in an A class hospital ward!
posted by Coach Jonathan Wong @ 7/26/2006 08:22:00 PM
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