Good: My neck is loads better, and is very nearly back to normal.
Bad: Some nasty insect has bitten me on the ankle and it has swollen up horribly over my ankle and down my foot, and developed a nasty looking huge orange blister, so it looks like I have an under-ripe cherry tomato stuck to my ankle.
Good: The swelling is better than yesterday, I can now walk. Yeah! It is also not nearly as painful, I now only feel like I am being stabbed with hot needles for most of the time rather than all of the time 🙂
Bad: I can’t treadle the spinning wheel, and I can’t drive the car 🙁 I don’t have enough range of motion to tilt my foot up and down, and at the moment I can’t even get my foot onto the clutch peddle let alone change gear (though it was probably greatly amusing watching me try).
Good: With all the sitting and not spinning time I have managed to do quite a lot of my City and Guilds class homework, although progress has been hampered by feeling a bit grotty.
Bad: I probably wont be able to get to the class tomorrow unless the swelling goes down enough for me to drive the car.
Good: I did manage a bit of spinning before the swelling got too bad, nearly done on bobbin 5 of the merino / silk.
Bad: I really wanted to finish this before Knit Nation next week so I have all my bobbins clear. So I had better hurry up and get better soon.
May I, quite strongly, suggest you go to A&E with that. I’ve had cellulitis, which started a bit like that. If the red, hot area starts to spread, go immediately.
Other than that, elevate your ankle and put a cool pack on it.
Not wanting to frighten you…
Luckily I think the swelling is actually getting better rather than worse, but I shall definitely keep an eye on it. I showed it to the doctor yesterday, and he seemed to think it was fairly normal (if disgusting) and that I was doing all the appropriate things (antihistamines and hydrocortisone). I have found a few ice-cubes in a plastic bag make a very good cold pack, although I now need to refil the trays in the freezer!
Ouch, that looks awful. I hope it gets better soon!
I hope so too! Luckily it is not so painful this morning, though it is still swollen up, and the skin near the bite is now a rather nasty shade of purple 🙁 (probably just bruising) I still can’t get my shoe on which is rather annoying.
Dear me, that looks so painful! I am surprised you didn’t go to the hospital to have it checked.
Luckily though it still looks nasty it is a lot less painful today. I did go to the pharmacy on Thursday and the doctor on Friday, and they both said that I was already doing all the appropriate things (antihistamines and hydrocortisone) and that there wasn’t anything else I could do with it at the moment. I am hoping it will get a move on getting better though, it is quite annoying!