4 - Oh my that Rebif

Monday March 11, 2013

It's 5pm on Monday.  I just spent most of my day in an Urgent Care Clinic in London which was really just a walk-in clinic.  In January 2009 in Barrie, I fell on the ice in the Georgian College parking lot, and within 2 hours my shin was red and swollen three times its usual size.  I had to go to emergency in Barrie, and the emerg doctor had to drill into the leg and clean out an infection from the inside.  That is even more painful than it sounds... lol.  For the following month I had a home-care nurse who repacked the wound.  Double ouch.  Then, re-infection and more drilling and mining for infection nuggets.  Triple ouch.  Since 2009, my shin has been a shade of pink, and it has been called cellulitis.  Then, in the past 2 months, a major infection has taken place there again, thus prompting the walk-in clinic.  The young female doctor took one look, listened to the story, and told me my new Rebif Interferon medication for MS will tend to bandaid the MS by shutting down your immune system and antibodies.  She said that would explain the fact that on a too high dose like I started on, my temp was up over 105F and that would explain the recurring leg infection.  She put me on massive antibiotics for 10 days.  She said the good new is that it doesn't need draining like 4 years ago, so she doesn't have to hire extra staff to peel me off the ceiling. LOL Thats what I like, a doctor with a sense of humour.

Glenn