An update on dear Tiffany's leg:
The leg isn't really getting better. It's worse, actually, but after a healthy dose of antibiotics, it's starting to hurt her less, and is only getting worse in preparation for getting better (puh puh please?).
The best diagnosis she got was from a doctor who said "maybe you ate some chocolate!" What? Tiffany said "But I didn't have chocolate before this all started." "Maybe you forgot," replied the doctor. She then tested Tiffany for diabetes. I mean, sure you can get blisters from a diabetic reaction, but still... chocolate?
The most competent doctor she's seen thus far said "It's likely that it was something like a spider." Boom. Read it and weep, Danes!
The source is still relatively a mystery, however, and the wound is now being treated as an autoimmune infection.
Pictures exist of the current wound. I'll save you from the horrors.
Tomorrow Tiffany is playing truck driver with her self-eating leg, driving a Henning Larsen truck to Munich -a good 10? 12? Hour drive. Hope the leg behaves. Don't meet any new spiders, Tiff!
Guesses are still being entertained, at least by me. If only for amusement's sake.
i would recommend forwarding your blog to the centers for disease control in the USA for more support. The responses poor Tiffany seems to be getting are absurd - and seem just so dangerous. I hope she fared OK in her travels to and from. If it looks like a spider bite... and it acts like a spider bite...and spiders exist in any type of small numbers...*
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