A Pain in the Ass
A quite literal pain the ass. I had an antibiotic shot in my rear end today. What prompted this travesty? Last Friday I was scratching at a mosquito bite on my ankle, absentmindedly, as I sat doing diligent work at my desk. On Friday evening my whole foot started feeling sore, as though I had twisted it (which — despite being drunk and stealing free quarter chickens and horrible beer from the campus alumni parties — I am 99% sure I did not actually do). On Saturday it started swelling up. By Sunday evening my entire foot was swollen and red and painful.
So today the health service decided to put me on a course of antibiotics, which started out with a huge frickin’ injection in the arse. Additionally I got to have a booster tetanus jab in the arm — which admittedly was mollified by the provision of a Tweety-Bird band-aid. So now I have a sore foot (with a huge purple Sharpie outline so they can track the size), a sore butt, a sore arm, a tweety bird band-aid, and I have to take 12 tablets a day (antibiotic, antihistamine, ibuprofen). And it’s almost 100F here, with no air conditioner. AND I’m stuck wondering where the bite came from (which of course prompts me to immediately think of large hairy spiders waiting for me in my bed).
Summer is awesome!
Tags: antibiotics, insect bite