Emergency surgery yesterday at my spring break destination. Currently in hospital bed.
That pressure sore I had at the start of last semester, ya, that closed and looked fine but it didn't heal. It started over winter break with unrelenting. stabbing electrical pains in swollen superficial inguinal LN. I was imaged at this exact same hospital and diagnosed with Lymphadenopathy; I was supposed to follow up but we know how vet school is. I asked the doc if the previous sore and LN could be related, he said didn't think so.
The LN stabbies waxed and waned since Dec, and I also got recurrent fevers. Monday I was getting tortured, and by yesterday I was burning up with 103F, LN were huge, and I had a huge mass right under the previous sore. It abscessed, big time.
I was supposed to get it imaged next Friday in Colorado, but I said nope, I'm going in. Staff immediately was freaking over sepsis, and I went to the OR as quick as possible. He drained a full cup of puss out of there, no gnarly.
Let's see how I'm gonna navigate this one, because this will take awhile to heal.
#springbreak