I'm more than 5 yr out from bone marrow transplant. See other blog for the rest

Monday, July 9, 2012

the problems with compromised immune system

First off my immune system may very well be coming up to scratch as we speak but it's not all there yet. so..
I watch what I eat. don't want intestinal bugs to run rampant.
I watch what I breath, care in gardening etc.
I watch cuts and nicks
So imagine my concern when a bit of thin ply, that I use under the dogs pad in the back of my truck, slid through one hand and along the back the of my other hand causing an 1/8 inch thick sliver to be driven into my hand. I looked at it and thought "my that hurts more then usual and look at that angle, its pretty perpendicular to my skin". As I pulled it out a huge amount of blood pooled up and I thought " hmmm thats the colour of the blood that they take out of of my veins every month, Holy C**p I just stuck a sliver in a vein". So I grabbed a cloth a pressed down hard for a a few minutes. and its stopped bleeding.  All good right but then I spend a lot of time yesterday, last night and this morning watching for signs of fever, indicating infection. It still hurts like heck but no infection nearly 24 hours later, so might have dodged this one.  But now, even more than ever, bluely hangs on my actions wanting then to be super safe and I worry that she worries.  Oh well that's life. yep it IS.
more later
Chris

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