Sickness has reared its ugly head and slid down our chimney.
I developed a nasty-looking boil on my chest that came up quite suddenly. I'm talking big and tremendously sore. Dr. took one look at it and said it was a Staph infection. Got antibiotics, and junk to put in our noses. He said everyone in the house should submerse in a bathtub with hot water and a 1/2 cup Clorox in the tub.
Also Susan developed extremely sore throat. She just got back from her Dr. and she has strep.
Going to get her scripts filled now.
I have to go tomorrow to have the Dr. cut into my infection and drain it, under local anesthesia.
Can't get out and enjoy the 70 degree-weather!
And, I'm supposed to pick up a "new-to-me" Ford Expedition this afternoon because lightening hit mine and the insurance company totaled it out.
So glad we have good insurance, even if it gets more costly all the time!

Don, be careful, and be sure to take those chlorine baths - they're the best thing I know of to stop a dermatological staph infection dead in it's tracks. We all have staph crawling on our skin, constantly, but most of the time just a daily shower solves the problem - but there are times when it finds a tiny place, sometimes as small as a hair follicle, where it can invade deeper into the cutaneous and sub-cutaneous layers where it just seems to explode. It's a nasty, and can be deadly, disease - so be very, very careful old friend.

Gary

Don get well please get better soon, ......speedy recovery.

Don ... wishing you and Susan a full and rapid recovery ...

Don - Floolow doc's order closely - as Gary says this is not to be taken lightly.

Get well quick good friend.

Bill G

Hi Don...sounds pretty serious, so follow directions to the letter.

I hope you and Susan are feeling better very soon.

Ian

Get well soon amigo! My new T5 arrives today. Need you to come over and put it through its paces!

Wishing Susan a speedy recovery. Emma has had a sore throat for abt 5 days now, She has missed some work but I think she's finally on the mend.

Take care,
Don P

Hope you are both feeling better soon.

Keep taking the medicine

All the very best

Col

Sorry to hear that. Wishing y'all a quick recovery.

Just got back from Dr. He didn't have to cut into it since it was responding to the antibiotics and had popped on its own. Gross, huh?
Any way that's good news.
Susan is feeling a little better too.
Thanks for the well wishes.