OUCH!

Sunday morning when I woke up for church I noticed that my leg was sore and that my lymph node in my groin was extremely swollen. I sort of brushed it off, asked myself what on earth I did to my leg, and assumed that I had done something and hadn't paid any attention to when it had happened.

So I carried out my business for the day, went Sunday School/Church, then watched the A Team with my bro, John, step-dad, his father, and two other distant relatives. The movie was absolutely hallarious btw! It was much better than what I had thought.

I better make this quick because my hands are starting to hurt pretty bad.... I ended up going to the emergency room late Sunday night. I went up to the triage nurse and was like "hey, I don't want to be wasting anyone's time, but this has got me concerned, can I just wait til tomrorow?"...apparently she didn't think it would be wise to send me away, so I preceeded to spend the next 7 hours there, woohoo. So basically what it came down to is I have what they call "streaking" that runs about ten inches up my inner thigh along the artery, its continuing to grow in length and widen. The streaking is apparently an infection that is moving through my body- the reason why the lymph node was swollen. Official diagnoses was Cellulitis; a subdermal infection of the skin.

My friend Jen works in the ER as a Physician's Assistant so she hung out with me for about an hour after she got off work. Which was nice because I was going nuts talking to myself, mainly the dialogue was "shut that kid up!". There was a deaf lady next to me who had kids that were screaming allllll night..... obviously she didn't see a need to do anything about that. (and the kids weren't being seen, she was, so I'm not that insensitive).

They did a bunch of bloodwork, which they butchered me during the process. The phlebotimist, I think she was an imposter, but she rolled one vein, and collapsed on in my other arm. So I ended up just getting an IV from the nurse there, she was wayyy better. Bloodwork back fine; still awaiting the cultures from tick born illnesses though. They also did an ultrasound to check for any clotting; I told the lady if she saw anything kicking not to tell me. Apparently they don't have a sense of humor at 4:30am. I have a cut on my knee but the Dr didn't seem to think that it was the cause of the streaking/infection. So basically I have a knee a tender thigh that hurts quite a bit at times, they gave me some pain killers, and some antibiotics as well.

Prayers are much appreciated; this things appears to be spreading more since last night and I reallllly want this taken care of obviously.

But all in all, God is good, he has a plan, and soo very thankful that this didn't happen while I was really in the midst of helping Josh with his house. When things appear to be going wrong, take a look and see how wrong things really could have gone! That will place everything into perspective. Also, look at everything as a test, just as Job did. It all comes down to our character being tested and how we will respond to specific events; will you handle it with dignity, or will you allow your character to crumble under the pressure. For a man whose character is tested, and is found to be solid and built in truth, he will find great reward and blessings. God doesn't bless a chameleon.

Goodnight :)