Infected elbow/ arm..

[NewYoiker]

So I had an accident at work last week.. it involved a scalpel and a fainting medical student. Long story.

Anyway. Occupational health gave me a hiv test and not a lot else as it was a clean scalpel. They were frankly fucking useless. I went to see my GP today as it was my day off and I was worried. When I went to see him it was a fairly clean wound and he took a swab and said to keep it open to the air. As I've just finished a course of Clarithromycin for an infected face (got all the sexy stuff me don't I?!)

Now I've had a bit of pain from it over the weekend but oh my god it's mutated through the day. I'm
In work tomorrow and off on Thursday but I don't know what to do with it!

Do I cover it up with a dressing and hope no one notices the discharge or get another appointment tomorrow ?

The photos are;
This morning at 7am
This afternoon at 3 (after the swab)
This evening at 10pm

It's so fucking painful!

That looks so sore, hope it starts healing soon.

Owww they really doesn't look good, glad you're going in.

I caught pseudomonas (sp?) from childbirth and the smell of my pp bleeding was something I will never, ever forget. I really hope your ATM doesn't smell that bad.

Are you in the hospital you work at? Always wondered if it makes things better or worse? I work for a uni with many hospitals that I am sometimes an outpatient in and find if I've got my work pass on thru do explain things differently.

Fingers crossed they can crack this soon for you, In being in a good few days iv antibiotics after what happened last time

Hope you’ve been seen. That definitely looks nasty and needs further attention.

hope you get the right antibiotics op

You need IV
Taxycin or Gentomycin

@Chartreuser no I'm not in the hospital I work for but that's because it's a specialist hospital. But I have told them
I need to get it sorted so I can go back to work in theatres so they do know I'm a hcp.

It does smell, I want to chop my arm off tbh. I'm meant to have a meeting with work tomorrow about it but it looks like I'll be missing that.

Tazycin or Gentomycin IV will sort this
I had a persistent case of it on a nephrostomy and it nearly killed me
I was pregnant as well which made it harder

You poor thing

I'd been opening swabs packets and using gloves to take samples etc, I had gloves on at the time having just closed a bin bag stood up med student fainted I got hurt. Ripped my gloves off and immediately applied pressure to stop the bleeding. But I didn't have chance to wash my hands after taking the gloves off so there could be a small amount of transfer on my hands

Oh you poor thing, what a freak accident.

Is it still an incident that needs to be reported though? Hope it was if so.

How is it/are you this morning?

How is your arm

It's quite a lot better now :) it's still red but it's going to be red for a while I think.

This is it today

That’s definitely improving

Red is better than green and yellow scabby.

Hope it will finally get better now. Did you have your meeting with your hospital?