Revenge of the Mosquito
August 31, 2007 by phantommidge
Frick, frick, frick!!! (for you Scrubs fans 
I have cellulitis, AGAIN!
So, while the rest of the nation is out enjoying Labor Day weekend, I will be elevating my arm and taking heavy duty antibiotics. 
This is all traced back to having lymphedema in the arm that got bit by a mosquito. Now, I have been putting on the bug spray and covering that arm, but with all the rain we have had here lately I guess it was a losing battle. There is some odd medical info here about reactions to mosquitos bites:
Durn, skeeter spit!……
If you have lymphedema, or are at risk for developing it, be aware that cellulitis is serious and dangerous…seek treatment ASAP!
I caught it early, since I had it once before (where I ended up in the hospital for a few days on IV antibiotics…not fun), so the picture of my arm is not nearly as horrible as the ones you can find searching the web (shudders).
OK, off to bed.
Yikes! Hope that gets taken care of. My dad’s bout of cellulitis really freaked me out, and he spent several weeks in the hospital getting his cleared up. I’ll definitely put on my mosquito spray … though next week when I’m hiking around Cape Cod, the big worry is deer ticks, and my yearly bout with poison ivy.
oh my! whealing looks bad. hey, your comment list is growing.
Deary me, your wounded knee (or elbow?)! This is quite an example of dipterans gone bad. They’re not all so nasty!
It’s my arm…although it is quite bloated so it’s hard to tell
Most of the red marks are actually a result of the rash caused by cellulitis (infection under the skin). The mozzies only got me 3 times…but that was enough to ellict this reaction because I have lymphedema in that arm already.