Fer shure. I no longer even think about asking questions like “and what role did the Shetland Pony play in all this? And the duck?” I just sew them up, take cultures, and dispense antibiotics as indicated. And sometimes notify Animal Control.
I am laughing too hard to type…!
Had one over the holidays. I was working ER, caring for ICU overflow pts. This guy-no English- comes in with HOLES in his antecubitals. NOT injection sites, not needle tracks, but small gray holes, that ooze milky gray stuff.
He says he was exposed to a toxic chemical 3 months ago–no idea of name etc.
It took 4 days to get out of him that he was indeed shooting up–BUT NOT INTO THE VEIN. He was full blown septic shock and had fascitis of both arms–he is lucky to have escaped amputation.
God knows what he was shooting up–we never did find out. But neither arm showed inflammation except for a swelling. Just gray, putrid shit from the holes.
OK, so it’s a bit tangential from the insulin and the Shetland pony, but, to quote Cecil: “there is much weirdness among us, kids.”
United Airlines or someone in the Chattanooga airport stole all of my insulin and syringes once. They admitted my bags had been broken into but refused to compensate me for the insulin because medicine was “excluded specifically” from their damage/loss clause.
I never flew on them again. Cost them upwards of $25,000 in lost ticket sales to date (not sure since I’m not tracking closely). I hope they thought they showed me by not compensating me for my $50 of insulin.
I’ve had blood sugars of 20 or so before. I was 33 last night. Yup. Going to die soon.