I was bitten by a bug when visiting in Georgia this summer. The bite got bigger and horrible and green and very icky so I went to the doctor. He gave me some antibiotics and it all but went away. Just a little rosy mark which I paid no attention to, since as you all know I am so pale I am blue and those kinds of things can leave marks on me for months.
Last week it started getting darker. Then it started getting bigger. Now the stupid thing is about 4 inches in diameter and red. So I went to the doctor again.
He of course knows nothing about bug bites. This is Holland, even the bugs are civilized and do not bite. Well, he does know about ticks and Lyme disease but I was able to assure him that it was unlikely that I was bitten by a tick. In the end he concluded that, since it went away and then came back that it was likely a secondary infection (also given my long history of secondary infections that are worse than the original illness) and is tossing a fairly powerful broad spectrum antibiotic at it. If it does not go away entirely he has promised to send me to a specialist in tropical diseases or some such thing.
So now I am on doxycycline, which he assures me should knock out a staph infection (which is what I think it is) or any other garden variety (sorry) bacterial thingie. And I should stay out of the sun, because this antibiotic makes your skin sun sensitive.
Arg. Oh, well, at least he comes by once a week or so to check up on Nel and has said he will look at it again then.
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Don't let that thing get away from you.
I'm sorry you are still having a problem..did you tell him it was probably a spider bite.
Keep us informed about how this infection goes. If it continues to bother you, maybe your father can use his connections to get the folks at CDC to go over (this is a joke, John).
Unfortunately, all my contacts have either died or are retired!!
Dad
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