Druggie

Home from the hospital with a bag of drugs.

I still have a bit of a rash on my neck and right arm, but overall it is waaaaaay better. The doctors took some swabs of my oozing rash, but for some reason they were unable to grow anything from them, so they're still not sure what I had. It was probably impetigo, but it's not certain. It seems I've acquired a knack for getting hard-to-diagnose weird diseases. So far on my list: malaria in 1996, west nile in 2003 and giardia this past summer - none of which were ever confirmed.

Snacks

Itchy

I woke up Wednesday morning with an itchy eye-lid and by that evening I had a couple more red itchy patches on my chin. I dropped into the local clinic and was diagnosed with impetigo and given some oral antibiotics for it. By Saturday morning, I looked like this:

I sent Dr.-to-be Sullivan this photo and got some pretty strict instructions to get myself into a hospital and hooked up to some IV antibiotics pronto. I've been in the infectious diseases unit since Sunday night now and I am writing this while hooked up to said magical IV antibiotics. The swelling is gone, the itching is going and the oozing is under control. I only wish I wasn't missing so much school.

Lunchtime Wander through the Glass Houses

The Desert

The Tropics

Wet Weather Bimble at Glen Affric

Getting the waterproof trousers on at the car.

Glen Affric Lodge

There seems to be a bumper crop of Rowan berries this year.
James has been playing around with the colour accent feature on the camera, making for some very cool photographs.

Last night's rain.

Scots pine, bracken and rainbow.

Scots pine and Bracken

Happy wet team. Especially now that we are sitting around the fire in the Mill drinking beer and cooking curry.