Lauren

So they finally get me on IV antibiotics.

And my body, funnily enough, is allergic to this antibiotic.

This is an episode of House.

Truly.

So I get this thing.

It's called Redman syndrome.

I think they've renamed it now because of, you know, it's bad.

It's past my knee.

My leg is red and my body's now match that redness.

And they're like, OK, so now we have to flush this antibiotic because obviously your body is having an allergic reaction to this, which they get really freaked out about because they're

So much time has passed now, like the 13 hours, the five hours, the overnight.

It's completely in my bloodstream.

And so basically they get me back on a different antibiotic at this point.

Apparently it was just in time where it didn't go into my bone.

They were going to have to chip away my bone because they thought that it was in that.

But luckily they taught it right for that.

And so they finally at that point are like, OK, we'll admit you into the hospital.

I'm like, OK, well, what's the hospital going to do for me?

And they're like, well, we have to let the infection get through your bloodstream enough to where it can basically like coagulate into like a little ball to where they can carve it out.

Yeah, this is so gnarly.