No photos I'm afraid as it's now under a mountain of iodine and hydrocolloid dressings.
Last Friday I was stung, we're not sure by what, we'd seen horseflies earlier in the day, but I don't think the actual sting hurt enough iyswim.
Sat/ sun I had a growing, hot lump that was close to golf ball size by Sunday night. Monday I felt dreadful so called GP, spoke to triage nurse and started on erythromycin. Tuesday I couldn't move my shoulder, felt very sick and was running a fever. Went to minor injuries where they swabbed, squeezed and dressed it. And gave me Doxycycline and codeine. Had it checked out with a view to going to hospital for iv antibiotics but nurse decided to just clean and redress yesterday
It's much smaller now - marble size but I feel dreadful. Not fluey anymore but sick and so drained. I'm back at the nurse on Tuesday but have to clean and redress it myself tomorrow. I am slightly nervous about what I'm going to find, the doctor and both nurses I've seen have all started with "well that's really nasty, no wonder you feel dreadful"
I'm not entirely sure why I'm posting,handholds maybe, but I felt you would all appreciate it.