And Again

So after another trip back to the doctor this morning we have some answers! Unfortunately, they aren't good answers. Last week Matt got something on his leg that we finally decided must be some sort of bite , but it healed up and he didn't have a lot of issues with it. I got the same thing a few days later, but didn't worry too much about it because it seemed to be healing on the same course that his did. What I failed to do is connect the bite to the eye issue. The bite is apparently the culprit of everything! Whatever bit me is something I am apparently highly allergic to. This caused the swelling and allergic reaction. Because the reaction lasted so long, it turned into an infection in my lower eyelid. This in turn caused the infection to run through my body and the bite got infected too! So essentially, the reaction won't go away until the bite heals, and the bite will now heal more slowly because of the infection. That's what I call a vicious cycle. Luckily, I got on really strong antibiotics really early so there's a good chance what I'm already doing will take care of it eventually. The problem is that the antibiotic comes with the risk of dangerous overgrowth of bacteria in the intestines. I have to avoid any germs or bacteria because of the infection I already have, and hope that I don't get any additional infection. So I'll just be sitting here doing lots of cooking and laundry.