I narrowly escaped death

[Forte]

To start this off, I have a bad habit of biting my nails/cuticles. So, earlier last week I started getting a swelling on my left index finger. It started off not too bad, I'd figure it would recede within a couple of days so I didn't see medical advice. Well, a couple days ago it started really, really hurting, and turning green near the end of my finger nail. I went to the Student Health Center at my university, and the doctor that checked up on me came in for five seconds, looked at it and said it was no big deal. She prescribed me an anti-biotic and let me go.

Fast forward to a couple days ago (Friday), I had been taking the anti-biotic for about two days and was seeing no improvement. Then, my left arm started hurting anytime I moved it and even throbbed a violent pain when just relaxed. I thought I just might have pulled something, so I thought no big deal. I went out and drank on Friday, got smashed, couldn't feel a thing and passed out.

Then the next morning, Saturday, was the Polar Bear party here in Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Essentially, the bars open at 10am with great prices and everybody here gets shitwrecked. Well, when I woke up I had a large red line starting from my left hand down to my left armpit, twisting around my entire arm. However, the Student Health Center is closed Saturday/Sunday, so I called my dad to see what other places around here I could go to to get it looked at. He looked it up and told me where I could go, however he said it would probably be a $100 copay. I told him okay, and that I would go.

Well, some of my buddies were coming down for Polar Bear, so I picked them up at the train station. I was originally just going to wait until Monday and then go back to the Student Health Center and get it looked at, because I wanted to drink and I also didn't feel like paying $100 in order for them to tell me it was no big deal or whatever.

Luckily, my mom called to ask if I had found anything out yet, and I told her I was just going to wait until Monday. She said she didn't like the sound of what was on my arm and insisted that I go and get it looked at. I said okay, and I'm very very very lucky that I did.

When I got to the medical center, it turned out to actually only be a $15 copay. More importently however, it turned out that the infection on my finger was probably a staph infection and the swelling on my arm was called lymphgitis (spelling?), also known as "blood poisoning." In a single day, the infection spread from my finger down a major artery in my arm which was the cause of the blood poisoning. If I had waited, it might have spread to my heart and I would probably not be here to see anymore dick jokes in this world, a shame.

The doctor at the clinic popped the infection on my finger in order to flush it out, prescribed me a very strong anti-biotic and twenty 500mg Vicodin tablets. This should have probably been done in the first place.

Anyway, I went out last night, all viked out and stoned, but I didn't drink. Turned out to be a pretty fun night. To think I almost could have died in order to drink, ignoring what could be a serious health issue. It's weird, because I have never really had any health problems, but it taught me something. I should really pay more attention to somethings that involve my body and of course, not to bite my nails/cuticles.

TL;DR
I almost died to staph infection by choosing to ignore it in order to drink. Lesson learned.

So, Newgrounds, how are you today?

[Spilda-Bongwata]

lmfao oh wow

[Trampzy]

Oh shit! I've had the same thing happen to me before!! Except for me, I sliced up the palm of my hand on pavement really bad, and never got a chance to disinfect it, then 3 days later I had blood poisoning, except it was a black line running up my arm. Thing was I was in school at the time, and saw it slowly moving (mine was really fast) and I had to go get antibiotics within the next hour or I would've been dead. Spontaneous Death Syndrome! I can relate, it's a fun story.

[benmitchell0036]

Cool blog post, bro.

[Forte]

At 1/29/12 06:35 PM, benmitchell0036 wrote: Cool blog post, bro.

Go away, troll.

[Spilda-Bongwata]

ok so you think your life sucks eh? because you get free percocets?

many dogs learned to live with the relentless psychological need to gnaw on their genitals

this condition goes largely unnoticed and dogs never get free drugs

its probably illegal to give your dog painkillers

that's fucked up right?

imagine that man

so fuck your doctor's orders you should get DRUNK!

[benmitchell0036]

At 1/29/12 06:36 PM, Forte wrote:

At 1/29/12 06:35 PM, benmitchell0036 wrote: Cool blog post, bro.

Go away, troll.

I think you need to read up on the definition of troll.

[Trampzy]

At 1/29/12 06:37 PM, Spilda-Bongwata wrote: ok so you think your life sucks eh? because you get free percocets?

many dogs learned to live with the relentless psychological need to gnaw on their genitals

this condition goes largely unnoticed and dogs never get free drugs

Soo...... Are you a dog then?

[HaniiPuppy]

At 1/29/12 06:48 PM, Trampzy wrote:

At 1/29/12 06:37 PM, Spilda-Bongwata wrote: ok so you think your life sucks eh? because you get free percocets?

many dogs learned to live with the relentless psychological need to gnaw on their genitals

this condition goes largely unnoticed and dogs never get free drugs

Soo...... Are you a dog then?

He speaks the truth. As a young collie myself, I find it incredibly hard to get doctors to give me painkillers.

[LostFaceInTrain]

That was boring

[Trampzy]

At 1/29/12 07:00 PM, LostFaceInTrain wrote: That was boring

That's because you ain't in the club. The Blood Poisoning Club. VIP access only.

[Dubbi]

Never had any medical problem worse than a mild fever - I like it better this way.

[Taraa]

aww my poor baby :(

[Swag-in-a-Bag]

Glad your still alive, but the next time you almost die and post about it ; use less details to make a long story short

[Chocomilk]

I can't say I've ever had a staph infection before, but if you want my genital herpes and AIDS I'll gladly share.

[DarkMatter]

Wow and I was expecting Final Destination 9

[Skaren]

I would have missed you. I almost fell off of a 100 foot tall rock formation once without a harness, that was my second brush with death.

[sourcola]

That was pretty interesting to read. I never knew something as simple as biting your nails could cause something like this.

It's a good thing I don't my bite my nails.

[TheSandyman]

I snorted a bunch of heroin once (thinking it was cocaine), right after I won a twisting championship in a 50's restaurant. My friend drove me up to his dealer and I got an adrenalinshot right in the heart.
Not long after saving me, my friend was killed by a boxer though. Got shot in the stumache.

[masheenH3ad]

It is too long.