They numbed it, lanced it, stuffed gauze in the hole, and gave me some antibiotics and vicodin. So, I'm off the mat for at least the rest of this week. I was planning to wait to see my doctor in the morning, but it got so bad that even after 800mg of Motrin I couldn't sleep at all.
The worst part is that I could have avoided it. It started as an infected hair on the back of my left knee. I wore a knee support last Monday in classand I guess it agitated the skin / hair leading to an infected hair. Anyway, I didn't know that you could get staff from an infected hair. So, like an idiot, I popped it with a needle, wiped the blood away with some toilet paper, and called it a day.
If I would have just hit it with some rubbing alcohol and triple-antibiotic ointment, it would have never progressed to full-on staph.
Learn from my stupidity and save yourself the pain / downtime / medical bill.
