Not in the metaphorical sense. This time.
Friday, January 4, I posted this status update on Facebook that some of you might have seen:
I have an enormous zit or ingrown hair on my right butt check that needs to be popped. I just thought y’all should know.
Because that’s what it felt like.
Here’s what it looked like early Saturday morning, January 5:
At that point, I started to think it was an ingrown hair that I had maybe scratched and irritated somehow. I mean with the light fuzz and all, and being in a rub zone, that’s always a possibility. Right?
In the days after that, I decided there’s no way it was a zit. It felt like there was a nodule below it. Almost like it was a cyst. And nothing would really come out when it was squeezed. Because I kept trying to squeeze it.
I had the Husbear attempt to pop it a couple of times. Ouch. That didn’t really make it any better. And not much of anything really came out when he tried, other than some white sludge.
Then it started leaking. Kind of. More like draining. So I put a band-aid on it. When I pulled the band-aid off at night, it was disgusting.
I knew I needed to go to the doctor. Not The Doctor. But my general doctor.
Here’s what it looked like four days later on January 9 after visiting the doctor:
Here’s a slightly better close up:
The doctor thought it was possibly a spider bite. Which is highly probably considering where we live out in the country. He also thought maybe the bite wound also contained staph. Joy. So he put my on the most powerful antibiotics I have ever been on in my life. And also I had to irrigate the location and apply some antibiotic ointment to the site multiple times a day.
He also said the entire picking and attempting to pop it that I tried didn’t help matters any.
10 days after visiting the doctor. The Band-Aids are tearing up my skin:
19 days after visiting the doctor. It’s getting better:
And here we are, 42 days since I first noticed the problem, and 37 days after visiting the doctor:
I’m really hoping that discoloration goes away from where the bite site was.
I’m not sure what the moral of the story is, other than: if it feels like a big zit, it probably isn’t, and I should probably get it checked.
Until next time...
I had something similar in Sept on my hip but I waited much too long to get to the doctor. I took pics too – very gross. The area is still discolored but continues to improve. Good luck.
I definitely can’t imagine letting it have gotten any bigger/worse than it was. I was freaked out once it started to feel like a golf ball was under my skin. Glad yours is doing better!
Memo to self: do not look at the interwebs when eating lunch.
Sorry about that. I guess I could have put a disclaimer in the title. 😉
It looks like a spider bite. OUCH! I hope your cute little butt is better now!
My “cute little butt” is doing better. Finally. It’s still discolored at the bite site. But hopefully that will go away. I can’t have a blemish on my butt!
That’s a crappy place to have a zit/spider bite. But still your ass is nice. You’re the 2nd blogger that I’ve read today with a post about butts. I find it amusing cause I’m going to a Bearracuda party tonight, the theme underwear night, and I’m wearing a jockstrap.
I guess I should be glad it was there, and not, say, a few more inches forward. That would have been… bad.
It must have been a butt kind of day. 😉
Glad you are better. Or glad your butt is better. There are fade creams for scars, if it really bothers you. Perhaps a small tattoo could cover it, too…
I’ll see how the scar fades over the next month. I’m not sure I’d really want a tattoo on my butt. Odd that I’d think that.
I”m thinking Brown Recluse. I believe they live in your area, and their bites are NASTY. The chuck of skin missing seems to indicate that. Sorry bud! Glad your ass is on the mend tho!
I was thinking that too. Although it didn’t progress as rapidly as a brown recluse bite normally does.
So long as it wasn’t termites
Termites attack wood. They should be up front. 😉
ouch… I’m glad it’s looking so much better now.
That it is. Finally.
Well, look from the better side of the story – the bite could be on a much worse place (if you know what I mean)…. 😉
Totally! I’m not sure I would have recovered from that!
It’s always something. You’ve got one sweet ass though but more important, I’m glad you’re doing better. Keep updating us with photos!
Heh heh… thank you. I’ll probably add a few more at some point in the future. If it looks better.