May 29, 2007
A Benadryl Weekend
Thursday before last, as El Gusano and I were setting up the Babalu booth at Cuba Nostalgia, I felt a little discomfort, possibly an insect bite or perhaps a small pimple growing right below my navel, right on my belt line. The thing pretty much kept growing over the Cuba Nostalgia weekend and I pretty much ignored it as I was way to busy during the event.
Then, last week, it mushroomed. To the point where, on Friday, I could no longer buckle my jeans or my belt. The thing was now the size of a Kennedy half dollar and the pain was excruciating. I tried to get to see the doctor that day, but he was called out on an emergency so I was SOL.
I ended up self medicating over the weekend. I had a couple anti-biotics left from the mojo hand injection incident and popped those and coupled them with Benadryl every 6 hours.
Perhaps the pimple/bug bite was a sign from the Big Guy upstairs because I ended up spending the entire Memorial weekend either in bed or passed out on the sofa - Benadryl will do that - which recharged my almost dead batteries and allowed for some much needed stress free rest.
Im seeing the doctor this afternoon because, even though the damned thing popped on Saturday - trust me, you dont want details on this - I still have some swelling, redness and discomfort. I hope he doesnt prescribe Bendryl and bed rest.
My apologies to all for the lack of blogging this past weekend, but I couldn't keep my eyes open, much less type a coherent sentence. A huge thanks for the contributors who picked up the slack, in their own excellent blogging way.
Posted by Val Prieto at May 29, 2007 07:16 AM
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Val,
Careful. If a bug bite watch for recluse. If not with your stress level shingles starts that way. Hope neither is the case.
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at May 29, 2007 08:26 AM
pototo,
Ive had both. For sure it isnt shingles, as the shingles usually apear on only one side of the body and this sucker is smack dab in the middle.
The recluse on the other hand, has me a bit concerned. I was bitten about a year ago by one of those suckers and this thing looks alot like that bite. I doused that sucker in a pretty high spectrum anti-biotic over the weekend though, which I believe is the same anti-biotic the doctor had prescribed for the original bite last year.
Posted by: Val Prieto at May 29, 2007 08:54 AM
Hope you feel better soon!
Posted by: R S at May 29, 2007 09:34 AM
Hope you feel better!
Posted by: La Ventanita at May 29, 2007 10:12 AM
Fumigate ManCamp!
Posted by: jsb at May 29, 2007 10:41 AM
Best wishes for a fast recovery Val. I had an almost identical episode and, in my case, anti-biotics saved the day. I had bought tickets a few years ago to the Monterey Jazz festival. We had rented a motel room for three nights. At first I thought the red pimple was an ingrown hair but it kept getting bigger. Mine was just above my belt on the right back side. By the end of the first day it was as big as a quarter and shaped like a half inch high volcano. I couldn't sleep on that side, it felt like an ice pick going through my back. By the third day it was hard and super sensitive. If I looked at it it hurt. I swear, to this day, I think it was moving. I started to think I had been cursed. The anti-biotics saved me and later I wrote a neat little horror story about a man who becomes a slave to the monster growing inside him. Its kinda like what happened to Cuba.
Good luck, mine was called a staph infection.
Posted by: kenko at May 29, 2007 11:17 AM
Man what is it with Cubans and shingles (culebria). I had it as a kid and know many Cubans who ahve. Maybe its our stress? As for recluse my wife got bit once and you need to have it treated right away.
Posted by: pototo at May 29, 2007 11:52 AM
Jeez Val, and all you were complaining about was that nasty thing on your foot. I think JSB is right, time to fumigate mancamp.
Posted by: Ziva at May 29, 2007 02:12 PM
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