Super Staph!

Only it's not so super, really. For those of you that know me pretty well, you know I tend to update my blog fairly frequently. So for me to not even turn on a computer for about a week, you KNOW I'm sick, heh heh.

I somehow caught a staph infection called "staph MRSA" last Tuesday, and it made a pretty big hole in my upper right lip area, and the worst swelling I've ever seen on my face. My entire lip was swollen from Tuesday night until about Monday afternoon -- total misery. The first doc put me on antibiotics that didn't work -- the infection was spreading and the swelling was getting worse. So Friday they put me on a different antibiotic, and at twice the normal dosage. It was a pretty miserable week with swelling, fever, and the worst facial pain I've ever had. Finally by Sunday it decided to start cutting loose and OH GROSS! Nuff said there.

Monday morning I saw doc #3, who put me on four times the antibiotic I was previously taking, and also an antibiotic cream for the abcess. It's Wednesday and I'm feeling great. I've got a band-aid on my lip but at least the swelling's probably 98% gone and things are looking up. I'm not looking forward to gigging this weekend with a stupid band-aid on my face, but oh well... at least I'll be able to MAKE the gigs.

Suede Friday night and The Scene Saturday night all you Tulsans! :)

This past Sunday Chuck took me to a great wild animal park in Gentry, Arkansas, to get me out of the house and out of some depression/moodiness I'd slipped into after 5 days of a swollen face. It was a ton of fun -- it was mostly a drive-through wild animal park, pretty neat stuff! Pics to follow!