So my ds turned 18 at the end of Feb and for a year has been badgering us about a tatoo. Sure enough he came home with one after his birthday. I wasn't very happy because he had told us this guy who was learning how to do tatoos would do it for free. We told him not a good idea, sanitary reasons ect...Well apparently we didn't know what we were talking about because he got one anyway. My dh was mad and told him as long as he lived under our roof he needed to follow our rules. Fast forward to Sunday. I had been home from my wonderful weekend scrapbooking and I am cooking dinner. Its 6:30. DS comes home and asks me to make him a dr appointment because he has some wierd zits on his leg and its not getting better. It hurts now. He tells me he showed it to his dad on Friday. Guess dad told him to put some antibiotic cream on it. BTW its around his wonderful new tatoo. So I told him to show it to me. It was the most disgusting thing I have seen. He has an abcess on his leg about the size of ping pong ball and all this little pus pockets all around that damn tattoo. All he said was I watched the guy open up all the needles and the ink from brand new packages.
So off to the ER we went. Sure enough, staph infection. He had to have IV antibiotics and is now on some powerful antibiotic. The doctor was an idiot. I asked for it to be lanced and cleaned out. He said it was small enough it didn't need to be. Are you kidding me! Then he said if it didn't go away with the anitbiotics then it would need to be cleaned out. Yesterday morning I called his regular doctor. They were a bit dismayed it wasn't cleaned out at the ER. They want to see him Wednesday, unless things look worse. Last night it looked the same. All my husband told him was "I bet you won't be getting another tattoo any time soon." I asked him why he waited so long to have me see the infection. I guess he had it for about 5 days. He kept thinking it would go away. So I am hoping this isn't the antibiotic resistant staph.
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