Insect bite

On Sunday, I had to clear the way in the unfinished laundry room for the Fios install on Monday. Things went well untill I reached the bottom shelf and noticed my hand was itching. Scratched and to my amazement the backof my hand was was swelling and bruising badly. Spider Bite??? Still don't know.

This sent me into my usual frenzy of dressing, makeup, Xanax, etc. And then off to the Urgent Care to have a look.

Centreville U C closed on Sunday..........Inova U C on Rte. 28 had a back-up of patients for at least 3 1/2 hrs. The nurse said from looking at my hand, I had better go to the new and less busy Inova U C in South Riding. So back in the car but the Xanax had calmed me down enough to drive another 12 miles.

Doctor there saw me immediately and said it could be spider bite or that I broke my knuckle. ?????? I said I think I would have known if I had hit my hand hard enough for that so she agreed to prescribe an antibiotic and Prednizone (which I refuse to take) and said that if that didn't work she would exray my hand to see if I might have forgotten that I hit my hand hard enough to break a knuckle. Another genius!!!

I really don't know how hard you have to hit a knuckle to break it, so maybe a slight bumping could do it???????? We'll see!!!

At this point, on Thursday AM the swelling is down and the whole back of hand is one big, ugly blob of dissipated under the skin blood. Looks soooooo bad but I have 10 days worth of Amoxicillin to take before we decide on "amputation". HAHA