Quick update

[brightrosefox]

Libby is home today after all; she seems to be doing all right. She'll probably go back and forth to the hospital for a while. I am relieved. But I swear, I seem to have developed a twitch or a tic now, almost every time I hear her voice. That happened when Bernie called at the house. I picked up, and he said he was at the grocery store, and then I heard her voice in the background (he'd picked her up from the hospital) and I literally winced. *shakes head* I know, I know; it's not that bad. I'm just... I dunno. I need to relax.

We helped Beth move to Sterling today. Her new apartment is lovely.

Warning: Ick factor...
I have a weird hole on the inside of my right pinky toe. It used to be a corn, surrounded by dead skin. It's very annoying. I've had what seemed to be a corn for about a month. A couple of days ago, it became a hole.
Beth looked at it, having nurse knowledge, and suggested abcess. Adam, being a former EMT, said he'd see if he could do something about it before I make an appointment with a podiatrist sometime very soon. Good thing I have a PPO insurance now.
So, tonight, Adam sat me down in the bathroom to look at it and try to sterilize it. Then he conferred with his father, and Bernie says it looks like a fungal infection or a burst blister. It's still a hole. Oddly enough, it doesn't actually hurt. I say that even after Adam doused it with rubbing alcohol (91%), picked at the dead skin with tweezers, swabbed it with more alcohol, then doused and swabbed with pure iodine. So, whether it be abcess, fungus, blister, or whatever, it has now been sterilized. I will still see a podiatrist, though. I don't like the idea of possible potential sepsis.

Other than that, not much happened.

I'm not so tired anymore. Sleep did very well for me.

Comments

[saighin.livejournal.com]

abcess means hole, darlin'...I said I didn't know what had caused it (such as fungal infection, blister, cyst, etc.), which was one of the reasons I wanted you to see a podiatrist...glad you are doing so :-)

[brightrosefox.livejournal.com]

*nodsnods* Next Tuesday at four. Now, we must make sure Adam's insurance has actually listed me on the policy, since apparently they haven't for some stupid reason (I sent all the paperwork. Adam's going to ask his boss to yell at the insurance company tomorrow).

I figured abcess does mean hole, but I also assumed it was more than just a hole. Like, a specific infection. See, this is why I ask. ;)