herpes zoster? or MRSA

doubleplay
Sun, 21 Oct 2007 14:29:14 +0000

Mystery continues to unravel. S kept insisting he didn’t have shingles (he read all the literature they gave him about it, and more on the internet), so I just threw in the towel and advised him to come home and get a second opinion. He did not have any of the symptoms of shingles.
So this weekend, S drove home so we could go to an urgent care place in our town recommended by his regular doctor. He took one look and pronounced it a staph infection. He prescribed two antibiotics and some topical cream.
Tomorrow the infirmary should have the results of the culture. I will feel bad if it comes back positive for a contagious bacterial infection because of all that time my son has been running around with it; hopefully no one else “caught” it.