And, it being back is not a "good thing!" His cellulitis has reared it's ugly head again. The dark marks are the remains of the Sharpie marks that the doctor put on his leg in the hospital...so still within those lines. But his leg had been all calm and here it is again! After Woody showed me this morning that it was back. I immediately emailed his Vanderbilt orthopedist. She answered within 15 minutes. She wanted me to get in touch with the infectious disease doctors that were listed on our dismissal sheet from the hospital...unfortunately they were not listed on the sheet only the orthopedist and her clinic were listed. So she emailed someone at the infectious disease clinic and he got back to us very quickly, too. He immediately phoned in a prescription for the antibiotic to our local pharmacy. All this in a little over an hour! Woody left to run errands with his friend who has no transportation. Not long after he left, I got a call from our pharmacy and they don't have that antibiotic as it is not a common one. But they had checked around and found that the Kroger pharmacy had it.n they were calling for permission to pass the prescription along to them along with insurance information. I gave them permission and picked up the medicine when I did our grocery shopping this afternoon. Hopefully we will get this infection nipped in the bud and have it gone quickly! All I can say is..."if it isn't one thing it is another!" It definitely covers a lot smaller area than before so hopefully we can keep it from spreading to as large an area as before.
Since cellulitis is an infection that is a deep skin infection, it can go as deep as the muscle. And,
there is a chance that the metal plate and "loose" screws could be causing irritation that is causing the infection. But the infection has to be cleared up before surgery to fix what's broken can be done. Hope we don't go around in circles for too long!
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