Sunday, March 22, 2009

Beware of Barnacles


Just a friendly note to all our sailing friends out there. A barnacle cut can be a bigger pain than you might imagine. I had a couple of cuts on my hands from barnacles that were two weeks old and just about healed over. Then the infection kicked in. Now I look like I'm wearing a catcher's mitt on my left had but, no, that's just my hand. My reading shows that this can be a nasty infection to shake. I've been to the doc and have some antibiotics to take. In the meantime the nastyness has spread to what is probably a lymph node in my jaw. Nice. This is what I look like now.

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Go Louisville!

2 comments:

Latitude 43 said...

Yikes! Quit scaring us like that. You can't look that bad :)
Sorry to read you're a little puffed up. Keep an eye on that infection.

Paul
Sodus Bay

Anonymous said...

keep an eye on this once in the lymph node it will continue to spread. take all your antibiotic and stay away from barnacles