So, went back to urgent care for a follow-up appointment, since the leg was mostly doing better, but the redness was extending up to my knee.
Got stronger antibiotics, and told that if it gets worse over the next two days head to ER. Right now, I am glad to continue on an outpatient basis. Keeping the leg elevated over heart, and going gently for now.
Mrs and Pearl are taking good care of me in the meantime.
Tl;dr-Had a rough couple of days, but things are getting better now.
More info- The day before yesterday, I had a bad case of the chills, couldn’t keep food down, and was as weak as a kitten. Yesterday, I went to urgent care to get my leg looked at, as I had a hot, tender, red band around my shin, just above my ankle, and extending about 1/3 the way to my knee.
By the time I left urgent care last night, it hurt to walk on that foot. Putting weight on it would be excruciating, and is probably the worst pain I have ever felt where I didn’t pass out. The pain increased along to midnight, and then started to decrease about 4am.
4 doses of antibiotics later, I am doing much better. Leg is still red, but applying ice helps, and keeping it elevated. I can get up and walk to use the restroom without screaming in agony now, which is a plus, especially for Mrs and Pearl.
Poor ol’ cryptid-Scotto went to the podiatrist today, and long story short, no unessential walking around for 3 weeks while my left hoof heals up. Nothing serious, just a boo-boo that is poorly placed and needs time to heal. Weirdly coincidence that I had to patch a tire on our car, after it ran over a nail and developed a slow leak.
Upside of being parked on the couch, I am getting good snuggles from Pearl (see previous entry), and I discovered a nifty filter in PicsArt that can make my doodles into “toys”. (See second image)
Downside of today, I wasn’t comfortable going to get ice cream with @maximillian_deersteak tonight, and meeting some of her colleagues in a socially distanced yum fest.
Unrelated, screw Unity and the per install nonsense. So much for developing freeware using it, and so many other problems. Talk to devs before making policy, you dunces. This could bankrupt so many small developers.