Sena's DW :: Watermelon Life

Toot, toot, toot.

Hey, who's that playing my horn?

Oh yeah. It's me.

Hah! XD;

Today my hand is very red, mottled across the back, and my finger/thumb joints are stiff. The tooth puncture marks are pussy (blegh) and inflamed, while the scratches are healing just like any other scratch normally would. Despite the state of the bites, my hand isn't any more swollen than it was yesterday-- though it isn't any less swollen, either. :P

Anyway, because of all that fun stuff, I went back to the hospital this morning to have them look at it again. They weren't really busy, thankfully, so I wasn't actually there for long. I love short hospital visits!

The doctor I saw this time was different than the one I saw two days ago (that's hospital rotation for you), but I think he's the one I saw last time I was there, back in the fall for the problems I had with my lungs. ^_^ He's a nice guy, even though I can't remember his name, lol.

So he had a look at my hand, and asked about the antibiotics I was prescribed on Tuesday. He says that, in his experience, almost all cat bites become infected, so it's normal that mine are. He also told me that it takes a few doses for the antibiotics to get into my bloodstream enough to work, but they should start kicking in properly tomorrow or the next day, and then I'll start seeing improvement.

There really wasn't much he could do for me, since I've already got the Apo-Amoxi Clav to take, but he gave me a tetnus shot just in case (I don't know why they didn't give me one on Tuesday, honestly), and told me that if it doesn't start getting better some time in the next couple of days, I should come back again.

Right, so! There you go. I still can't use my hand much (especially my thumb when it comes to gripping), but even though I've got an infection, it's normal. WHOOT.

Also, owie. The muscles in my arm where I got that tetnus shot are really sore right now... ;-; *whiner*

That aside, I cooked that turkey yesterday, even though I only had one hand to work with. >^-^;; I wouldn't have done it, except that it had been thawed for a couple of days, and really needed to be cooked. Sarah helped me move it around and stir the stuffing, and the rest of it was done with just my left hand and my right elbow to pin stuff down when I needed to. ^_^;; Ahaha...

It turned out really good, even though it was awkward to do. Now that it's all done, I gave a bunch of Sarah, and a bunch to Mom and Lee, and then put together six turkey-and-stuffing TV-type dinners and stuck them in the freezer. YAY TURKEY.

I also have a big container of bones and meat scraps, and in a couple of days when my hand is feeling a bit better, I'm going to make a huge-ass pot of soup. X3