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<blockquote data-quote="GoingNorth" data-source="post: 320912" data-attributes="member: 1963"><p>RLS is right (good grief...you've swiped my actual initials, LoL). In less than 48 hours husband's infection had progressed to close to systemic--it's a short hop from the armpit to the chest cavity.</p><p></p><p>They did draw around the area and yes, we had to keep checking it frequently to check progress.</p><p></p><p>At the hospital they splinted husband's arm and attached it to one of those overhead things like they do with fracture patients.</p><p></p><p>I don't know if the infection had spread into the actual bone, but husband had a permanent bony bump on the elbow after that.</p><p></p><p>I cannot emphasize enough how important it is to stay on top of this. husband's kidney numbers were already abnormal when he was admitted to the hospital and he was a young, healthy, and very physically fit man when this happened.</p><p></p><p>Like I said, this was a very minor injury. He caught his elbow on a protruding bolt, bruised it, and just scraped off a little bit of skin.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="GoingNorth, post: 320912, member: 1963"] RLS is right (good grief...you've swiped my actual initials, LoL). In less than 48 hours husband's infection had progressed to close to systemic--it's a short hop from the armpit to the chest cavity. They did draw around the area and yes, we had to keep checking it frequently to check progress. At the hospital they splinted husband's arm and attached it to one of those overhead things like they do with fracture patients. I don't know if the infection had spread into the actual bone, but husband had a permanent bony bump on the elbow after that. I cannot emphasize enough how important it is to stay on top of this. husband's kidney numbers were already abnormal when he was admitted to the hospital and he was a young, healthy, and very physically fit man when this happened. Like I said, this was a very minor injury. He caught his elbow on a protruding bolt, bruised it, and just scraped off a little bit of skin. [/QUOTE]
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