After the adventure we had in late spring, I found myself moving through the challenges of getting young adults ready for another year of education and with that all the arrangements for University along with the indecision and tribulations that follow. Soon autumn was here and the kids were settled and I thought I could be again back at writing about how my experiment with feeding my family from the gardens and the plantings I had made and discussing the successes and failures....... Then things took a turn..... I nicked my chin while shaving. Not an uncommon thing no real trauma or trouble..... or so I thought!
I went to work and came home that evening all was well - a nice quiet evening I remember my nicked chin being itchy...... I woke Saturday morning with a small bump and though little of it until the evening when I looked in the mirror and discovered I was swollen - By next morning the lump had grown to nearly golf ball size - I made an appointment at the Doctors for Monday....
Well The Clinic took a look and said it was an abscess and that it had to be drained. They tried but no luck... They sent me home with a bottle of antibiotics and told me to come back in two days and they would try again to drain the lump. I could not get an appointment so I had to wait an extra day - by then the lump had again doubled and was now the size of a grapefruit.... The clinic could not get the thing to drain and again sent me away.... I called My RN-wife and went to see the Doc she works with, He took one look and had it drained and packed it ASAP..... for the next several days I took the antibiotics and visited the Doctor daily. On the third day I was told you are going to the ER NOW! I spent the next 4 days on IV antibiotics in an attempt to kill the antibiotic resistant infection I contracted..... they were about to cut into my neck because the infection was threatening my carotid artery when the abscess finally drained...whew! they finally sent me home to rest with a prescription for double the dose of antibiotics as before...... three days later I spiked a fever of 103 and was back in the ER again more IV antibiotics and more high dose antibiotics........
Thankfully I am now Okay, at least for the moment. I have been told that I could have a relapse at any time and that I need to be watchful for at least the next two years!....
I have a lot of questions about the grand experiment we have begun with antibiotics and the creation of bacteria that we cannot kill any more..... When will we begin to understand that simple physics principal of equal but opposite reactions? Feeding ourselves and our food animals antibiotics and attempting to control nature without attention to the consequences..... now we have bugs that eat flesh and cause infections that are nearly uncontrollable causing complications all over the place..... Modern science? or misuse? either way we now have to somehow fix the problem before it fixes us!!
