Hello friends. Been awhile since I have written. It has been one crazy week, close to two weeks. Sam was bitten by what we believe was a spider on his bum about three weeks ago. It caused severe itching and just irritated the crap out of him. Then it started to grow. That next Monday I started caring for it at home by peroxide and antibiotic ointment. It started to look better, but then turned into a monster. By Wednesday he said he needed to go to the Dr. He went to an urgent care and they told him that it was probably a spider bite (not a brown recluse) that bite him and now was becoming infected. And me cleaning it only made it worse. Now instead of a little bite his entire bum was red and swollen. She put him on an antibiotic called bactrim and some steroid cream to put on the area. By Friday night it wasn't working. It was getting worse and the itching was driving him crazy. So he went to the ER. They doubled the dose of his bactrim and put him on some pain pills. And once again telling him if it gets worse come back, and they would probably have to admit him into the hospital.
The poor guy came home and followed all of there instructions, while me and the kids went swimming for 2 days. I was just trying to keep the kids out of his way, and of course wanted to be at the lake:)!! He layed on the couch and took his meds as directed. By the time Sunday night came around I looked at his lesion, and it seemed a lot worse. His leg was swollen. I have a little medical experience, and to be completely honest I was scared. This freakin' thing kept growing and nothing seemed to help at all. The man was miserable!! And he was now breaking out in a rash on his stomach! I told him he needed to go back to ER, but he was hesitant because they would want to keep him. We have NO insurance on Sam. He woke up Monday morning and went to work. My stomach kept on twisting telling me something was really wrong. I called him and urged him to come home. He didn't listen..."Someone needs to drive the fork lift"!! By noon he was so miserable with uncontrollable itching that he came home. He ran in the house and took a hot shower. He says that the hot water on his leg and bum was such a wonderful feeling, close to an orgasm as he explains.
So by now we know he was bitten by a spider, which became infected and has cellulitis. And is only getting worse!! The antibiotic is NOT working. So he is finally convinced to go back to the ER. We decided for him to go to the urgent care first because if he did need to go back to ER then they would call ahead and tell them he was coming. MISTAKE. They did tell him that he needed to go the ER but wouldn't call ahead.
Both set of our parents must have heard the concern in my voice because my mom came and got my brothers dog that I was babysitting and my 2 girls! Sam's parents came and got my 2 boys, so when I got off work I could go automatically to the ER without having to worry about them. What a blessing!!
He sat in the ER waiting room for a couple hours and when the triage nurse finally saw him, they realized this guy wasn't joking around. They started by saying they were going to give him a couple shots, and Sam informed him he's had shots they didn't work and he was sent to the ER believing they would have to start in IV. The Dr. actually listened and started and IV with medicine of adrenaline and something else for the itching and allergic reaction to the med. By this time Sam's entire stomach and arms are ate up with a rash. NOTHING seemed to help.
A spinal cord injury came in and we didn't see a Dr. or a nurse for 3 hours, and when we finally did they realized Sam was only getting worse. Basically to make this story a little shorter, we got to speak with a great Dr. that spoke to us like we were human instead of a complete annoyance. He was just going to hospitalize Sam over the allergic reaction he didn't even know what was on his bum. After seeing that he told Sam he would be spending at least a couple days in the hospital. They ran a bunch of test, and took him off the the bactrim.
Sam spent Monday night through Thursday afternoon in the hospital. He has MRSA that staph resistant to antibiotic, cellulitis, and had a severe allergic reaction to the bactrim. They have him on three different antibiotics and several different meds for the allergic reaction. He was discharged with 6 or 7 prescriptions, and will have to go in for outpatient care of IV abx treatment. Crazy story. We are completely exhausted, but so relieved that everything is starting to look better. You always realize how much friends and family care in a situation like this. Thank you all for the help and most of all the prayers. We have such a wonderful church family that has been there the entire time!! Also we are having help from a charity to pay for one of the meds that cost over 1,000 dollars for a 10 day supply. We only have to pay $5!! What a blessing!! We are also filling out paper work to see if we qualify for financial aid to help pay half or even all of the hospital bills. I pray this will work out for us!!
The poor guy came home and followed all of there instructions, while me and the kids went swimming for 2 days. I was just trying to keep the kids out of his way, and of course wanted to be at the lake:)!! He layed on the couch and took his meds as directed. By the time Sunday night came around I looked at his lesion, and it seemed a lot worse. His leg was swollen. I have a little medical experience, and to be completely honest I was scared. This freakin' thing kept growing and nothing seemed to help at all. The man was miserable!! And he was now breaking out in a rash on his stomach! I told him he needed to go back to ER, but he was hesitant because they would want to keep him. We have NO insurance on Sam. He woke up Monday morning and went to work. My stomach kept on twisting telling me something was really wrong. I called him and urged him to come home. He didn't listen..."Someone needs to drive the fork lift"!! By noon he was so miserable with uncontrollable itching that he came home. He ran in the house and took a hot shower. He says that the hot water on his leg and bum was such a wonderful feeling, close to an orgasm as he explains.
So by now we know he was bitten by a spider, which became infected and has cellulitis. And is only getting worse!! The antibiotic is NOT working. So he is finally convinced to go back to the ER. We decided for him to go to the urgent care first because if he did need to go back to ER then they would call ahead and tell them he was coming. MISTAKE. They did tell him that he needed to go the ER but wouldn't call ahead.
Both set of our parents must have heard the concern in my voice because my mom came and got my brothers dog that I was babysitting and my 2 girls! Sam's parents came and got my 2 boys, so when I got off work I could go automatically to the ER without having to worry about them. What a blessing!!
He sat in the ER waiting room for a couple hours and when the triage nurse finally saw him, they realized this guy wasn't joking around. They started by saying they were going to give him a couple shots, and Sam informed him he's had shots they didn't work and he was sent to the ER believing they would have to start in IV. The Dr. actually listened and started and IV with medicine of adrenaline and something else for the itching and allergic reaction to the med. By this time Sam's entire stomach and arms are ate up with a rash. NOTHING seemed to help.
A spinal cord injury came in and we didn't see a Dr. or a nurse for 3 hours, and when we finally did they realized Sam was only getting worse. Basically to make this story a little shorter, we got to speak with a great Dr. that spoke to us like we were human instead of a complete annoyance. He was just going to hospitalize Sam over the allergic reaction he didn't even know what was on his bum. After seeing that he told Sam he would be spending at least a couple days in the hospital. They ran a bunch of test, and took him off the the bactrim.
Sam spent Monday night through Thursday afternoon in the hospital. He has MRSA that staph resistant to antibiotic, cellulitis, and had a severe allergic reaction to the bactrim. They have him on three different antibiotics and several different meds for the allergic reaction. He was discharged with 6 or 7 prescriptions, and will have to go in for outpatient care of IV abx treatment. Crazy story. We are completely exhausted, but so relieved that everything is starting to look better. You always realize how much friends and family care in a situation like this. Thank you all for the help and most of all the prayers. We have such a wonderful church family that has been there the entire time!! Also we are having help from a charity to pay for one of the meds that cost over 1,000 dollars for a 10 day supply. We only have to pay $5!! What a blessing!! We are also filling out paper work to see if we qualify for financial aid to help pay half or even all of the hospital bills. I pray this will work out for us!!
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