A few years ago, I went to the hospital and left with an infection. It started in my elbow and every day it spread a bit more. At first, no one was worried, antibiotics would kill it. It turned out to be an MRSA of some sort and antibiotic after antibiotic failed to do anything. Every day the doctors would mark on my arm with a sharpie where the redness and swelling ended. Every day it got closer and closer to my shoulder. One day, I went in and the doctor said, “If this gets to your torso, you could die. If we can’t get this under control soon, we may have to amputate your arm to prevent that from happening.”
That was really scary. Something that started off looking like a bug bite on my elbow suddenly becoming something that could possibly kill me and was increasingly looking like would require the loss of an arm.
Luckily, the 5th or 6th antibiotic they tried finally did the trick.
