A trip to the doc..

This pic is the first of my sore. Its just a gauze pad being held on with clear medical tape.



Over the weekend nothing really changed. I was given a prescription for some antibiotics and for some anti inflammatory salve, Mupirocin. I was to put the salve around the edges of my sore a few times a day. This was easy because the border of my lesion was raised, however a moment after this salve was applied, i felt a stinging sensation. Not good.

At this second visit my doc was surprised that I wasn't complaining about pain. I said that I felt a slight sting while in the shower, from the soap, and from the Mupirocin but that was about it. It was about this time that I was explained what he thought I actually had on my leg. A very rare lesion called Pyoderma Gangrenosum but to be 100% sure a biopsy had to be performed. The doc had on a body length smock, rubber gloves and a clear face shield. He said that it was gonna hurt a little and that I may suffer some bleeding. Ok, that's fine. I've never been afraid of needles, blood, cutting as long as I don't have to actually see any cutting. The whole procedure lasted about 15 minutes. I felt some stinging but nothing major. I could see his little table with a strip of my tissue, about the size of a finger nail. He was cutting it into bits and dropping them into these little vials. He said that he was doing this so that he could send them off to different labs for examination. He was looking for bacterial, fungal, cancer and whatever else.

They wrapped my leg up after all was finished and now we had to wait for the results. He asked me to call the office in a few days for these results. It as this same week that I was scheduled to have a physical by another doc, internal medicine. So this leg wound is starting to have me run around..