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Caution!!! Gross photo below. Most of you just scrolled down, but at least this way you can’t say you weren’t warned. Yes, those are my legs, my poor red, mostly fat but slightly swollen, legs, and they are the reason for today’s doctor visit. Happily, he didn’t even lean a millimeter toward heart failure, rather he announced that I have a bacterial infection in the skin. A fairly nasty one based on the heat coming off of the red places, that is caused by / and causes poor circulation. Basically the blood vessels there are stewing in their own waste which is leaking out of them ... gross eh? Weight is a factor, though he is happy with my loss so far, but so is the fact that I ‘tuck’ when I sit. If I’m in an office chair, which I usually am, my legs are usually bent beneath the chair so my feet rest on the roller spokes. I do it with my left leg when I drive (notice which one is worse?). I do it when I sew, and wonder why my ankles swell - duh! I’m hoping he’s right, because I honestly couldn’t be happier to have an infection. There is concern though that the infection will break through the skin, resulting in a large and painful ulcer.
The solution? A round of antibiotics, two rounds of an anti-inflammatory, a cushion for my chair that prevents me from ‘tucking’, a stool under my desk to put my feet up on*, and EEEEK, support hose. He assures me that support hose are no longer the hideous orange things my grandmother wore. I do not know how I managed to keep my jaw from dropping when he announced that they are $30 a pair! It’s a good thing my dating days seem to be done, I can’t imagine there’s a large population looking for women who wear support hose!
*I tried for a note allowing me to put them on the desk. Dr. P. does not find me funny.
