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<blockquote data-quote="GoingNorth" data-source="post: 320734" data-attributes="member: 1963"><p>Cellulitis can be an evil illness.</p><p></p><p>husband got it in his twenties. He whacked and scraped his elbow while helping unload a truck.</p><p></p><p>He washed the wound and put some ointment on it and thought nothing more of it. He was more POd at having torn his uniform tunic than anything else.</p><p></p><p>That night he said his arm had started hurting more and that his elbow was going stiff.</p><p></p><p>Took a look and the joint was swollen and reddened. He put ice on it and took some aspirin for the pain and swelling.</p><p></p><p>By the next PM his elbow had swollen to the size of a melon, his arm had gone totally stiff, and he had swollen glands in the armpit.</p><p></p><p>That little scrape and bruise (you can get cellulitis in bruises. They are stll wounds, just haven't broken through the outer layers of skin) turned into three weeks in the hospital being treated with IV antibiotics. He narrowly avoided having to have a goodly amount of dead tissue removed from the arm.</p><p></p><p>Once healed, it took PT to really get the arm working again. Not only that, the skin at the back of the elbow joint was left discolored.</p><p></p><p>This was before all the flesh eating bacteria and MRSA. I can only imagine what could've happened today.</p><p></p><p>Even then he was in danger of losing his arm to the infection.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="GoingNorth, post: 320734, member: 1963"] Cellulitis can be an evil illness. husband got it in his twenties. He whacked and scraped his elbow while helping unload a truck. He washed the wound and put some ointment on it and thought nothing more of it. He was more POd at having torn his uniform tunic than anything else. That night he said his arm had started hurting more and that his elbow was going stiff. Took a look and the joint was swollen and reddened. He put ice on it and took some aspirin for the pain and swelling. By the next PM his elbow had swollen to the size of a melon, his arm had gone totally stiff, and he had swollen glands in the armpit. That little scrape and bruise (you can get cellulitis in bruises. They are stll wounds, just haven't broken through the outer layers of skin) turned into three weeks in the hospital being treated with IV antibiotics. He narrowly avoided having to have a goodly amount of dead tissue removed from the arm. Once healed, it took PT to really get the arm working again. Not only that, the skin at the back of the elbow joint was left discolored. This was before all the flesh eating bacteria and MRSA. I can only imagine what could've happened today. Even then he was in danger of losing his arm to the infection. [/QUOTE]
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