my scary foot!!!

tuesday/wednesday, july 13/14, 2010. last night g'ma erm and i were sitting on the porch chit chatting while uncle randy took joshua and the boys for a ride in his golf cart. i felt a MOSQUITO BITE me. g'ma erm asked if i wanted to go inside, but i said no. i wanted to wait it out until the boys came back. bad idea. i felt myself get bit again, so we headed in. my big toe started to itch that night and became a WELT about the size of a quarter. the next morning it looked like this:

  9:22 am.

an hour later i was online researching mosquito and spider bites. my foot was SWELLING, turning RED, and HOT to the touch! those symptoms lead to cellulitis and in true hypochondriac form, i called the DOCTOR.

12:27 pm

my appointment wasn't until 3:30. i marked an outline in pen to see if it would get worse. in the 3 hour wait it only got about a centimeter bigger.

by 10:13 pm it looked like this. it was HUGE!!! this, however, is what both my feet looked like when i was prego. so painful to walk on because my skin was being stretched white.

at 8:45 am the next morning it was still so not my foot.

a side view.

the doctor was concerned about the way the redness looked around the big toe and the dip in my skin where an old bite was healing. she was also worried about how hot it felt! to be safe she put me on an oral antibiotic to fight any possible INFECTION. i was more than happy to take the meds after all the reseach i had done and pics of infection out of control!

* a few days have passed now and my foot is one it way to looking normal again. YAY!