So, I got stung by a wasp about two weeks ago while at Disney. It started getting better but one morning I woke up and it had swelled to the size of a tennis ball and was extremely painful. I went straight the doctor's because I thought I was having a weird allergic reaction. Anyway, they cut it open and drained it and removed a stinger that was still in there. We all thought the left-in stinger caused the infection but she did a swab of the gunk they drained and sent me home with two stitches in my back, Vicoden, Levaquin, and doxycycline. She called a few days ago and wants me to go in tomorrow morning. Apparently the swab came back as MRSA. She said there has been an outbreak of it in this area and that it's a bad bacteria. :-/ She said that the wasp sting breaking my skin allowed the bacteria to enter my body. At this point, I'm not in danger am I? How likely is it my kids (a young baby of 5 months and a 5 year old) could catch it? More details to come, please keep reading.
2007-03-04
19:40:12
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Infectious Diseases