A week ago I banged my shin on a shelf, leaving a dime-sized wound, which I thought was no big deal and would go away shortly.

Sunday night the area around and several inches below that wound was bright red — not a good sign! It looked a lot better Monday morning but was still reddish, so I called the doctor after lunch. She couldn’t see me til this morning and could only try to work me in as she had no openings.

Funny thing was, I was prepared to spend the better part of the morning there with a book, but I was in and out in an hour — that’s never happened even when I had a scheduled appointment. But I’m not complaining!

I do have cellulitis (my spell check is trying to change that to cellulites. Well, I have that, too…) It must not be too severe, because I am not having any of the other symptoms listed and it doesn’t look as bad as the pictures. But it’s nothing to play around with. I am on an oral and a topical antibiotic and am supposed to keep my foot up (I did have it up while typing til just now, but the angle at which I have to sit and type like that is awkward and not very comfortable).

The doctor also said to wrap my lower leg in an ace bandage because my ankles tend to swell and the return blood flow isn’t very good. But when I took the bandage off to put the antibiotic on, the area was bright, bright red again and felt very irritated. Sunday night when it was so red I had had knee-high nylons on at church, and I had wondered if something against the skin just irritated it. So now I don’t know whether to put the bandage back on or not. She did say I didn’t have to have it on while my foot was up, only when I was walking around.

I have a lot I need to do at the computer this week — maybe someone else in the house will let me borrow their laptop. 😀 But I’m just hoping and praying this goes away soon.

By the way, I’ve been blessed by a few blogger friends with some awards over the last several days. I wanted to let you know I appreciate them and I am not ignoring them — I will post about them later this week. 🙂