^Have you ever seen someone pop a abscess? One of the most disgusting things I ever saw.
Back around the same time I knew that Kat guy w the leg i was crazy into speedballs and had horrible safe injecting practices. I ended up w an abcess on my forearm right above my tendons that was so close to the skin it was making stretch marks. I waited so long it was turning my skin on my left arms shades of purple and a rust hue which i later round out was blood poisoning.
When i FINALLY couldnt stand it anymore, my whole arm felt like it was on fire i went to the ER. The doctor and nurses were schoked when they saw it and the doc begged to call my mom in alaska but i refused to give him permission. Eventually i said yes and he called her and said if i waouldve waited 48 more hours the wouldve had to amputate it. I wonder if this was the truth tho.
So anyway, since i was a heroin addict and this was utah, not the most liberal or unserstanding state, they refuaed to give me pain meds and only gave me lidocaine to numb it. The took this huge four inch needles and injected all around and on top of the abcess the whole time im screaming bloody murder and cursing so bad the people outside thought i was in labor and eventually they put a wash rag in my mouth to bite down on the pain was so excruciating.
Finally they sliced it open and it was like a volcano i felt all the entrapped pus free itself from the pressure of being under my skin and just kept exploding i couldnt believe how much of this green & red milky liquid with chunks was coming out of my arm they were putting it into a cup and it filled one and a half of the cups which looked about
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The worst part was the smell. Once he sliced the wound with the scalpel the most horridsmll permeated throughout the room it was like the smell of rotting death once it invaded my nostrils i coughed and asked what the hell was it and the er doc said it was my infection.
So anyway they admitted to the hospital w iv antibiotics in my neck which sucked because the butterfly needle kept hittong my collarbone whenever id try to sleep or turn my neck. I had to have surgery from a plastic surgeon because the infection was on my tendons and he had to remove it. Reason it was a plastic surgeon was because your wrist is one of the most nerve dense areas in your body due to all the delicate motor skills and plastic surgeons have the most experience with nerve dense areas.
Stayed in the hospital for one of the worst most boring stays of my life withdrawing. They gave me this medicine that is used to lower blood pressure but can be used off label for heroin wd but it didnt do shit. Cant remember the name of it though. It was a super teeny pill.
Ive had 3 more abcesses since that ive had to go to the hospital for before. One was ao bad i would walk around w my arm above my head because it helped reduce the pain.
Thank god i learned clean iv practices since and havent had an abcesses since 2010.
