Symptoms of the flu:
http://www.flufacts.com/know/symptom...uFACTS%20Broad

The flu often has sore throat and or/ stomach ache.

The aching muscles are typically felt severely in the back and legs.

An infection in the foot/ or blood/ typically does not have the runny nose/ sore throat/coughing the flu brings. A high fever however, may make a person weak, and sore all over.

Check for Alan's foot: redness spreading up, swelling, throbbing, or red streaks on the lower legs. Redness and/or swelling suggests cellulitis. The red streaks suggest infection getting into the blood stream.

Most blisters have only clear fluid in them. Blood and pus? That is more serious IMO. A blood test for CBC differential would show if this is a serious infection.

People with psoriasis, often show slightly different skin responses to injury. My husband tends to make blisters easily...but they never have blood in them or pus. (only clear fluid).

Alan's foot had NO red streaks, tenderness, hotness, swollen this, or that. He had nothing.

He also since Friday when he began the fever, acted like he was hit with a truck. Just slept all day. And because I had checked his foot the day before and saw NOTHING, well this thing had to have developed after (or it was developing????)

No sore throat, no stomach ache .

I just asked Alan if you had any muscle spasms and he said "Well, right before you lanced my foot, I had a muscle spasm in my calf"

Since then, NO FEVER, HE'S FINE, his urine is clear, no body aches, no headache no nothing.

He just said to me 'I feel perfectly fine".

so we shall be leaving for the podiatrist soon and I'll update later.

thanks VERY much

melody
P.S. I have to add that the blister was not coming out of the foot ulcer area, it was adjacent to it. He had formed a callus around the foot ulcer (he always has this and the doctor debrides it whenever we go) But right NEXT to the ulcer is where this thing was growing. I wonder if it's connected to the foot ulcer. Will update

Mighty strange... almost as if there were an abscess that was blocked from draining, and moved over some.

See what the foot doctor says. Blood work would be useful.

White cells are typically depressed during viral infection.
Elevated from bacterial infection.

Just came home from the foot doctor. Will update.

going to get him antibiotics. He has cellulitis.

I'll tell you the whole story when I get back.

Melody

best of luck! i had cellulitis once, should clear up with the antibiotics

Okay, He'll be on his first antibiotic soon. He has to take them two times a day.

We go to the doctor he takes off his shoes and socks, the doctor takes one look at his foot and goes "Holy cow, Alan, what happened?" I said 'Well, we think he had the flu (and I tell him the story), he goes "how on earth did he get this, by the way, he has cellulitis" Alan goes 'what???" I go "you have an infection, he'll give you antibiotics, you'll be fine"

I then said: "I hope you are not mad at me but I lanced it yesterday, dressed it and wrapped it"

He said "thank god because you got a lot of the bacteria out, you know what you are doing". (So that part was good).

So he goes "but how did he get this". I said "well, I have a theory", He wears these shoes in the house with the old orthotics, OH, TAKE A LOOK AT THE NEW ORTHOTIC HE HAS BEEN USING"

Well!!!!! the doctor takes on look and says "I don't have to look at anything else, IT'S THE NEW ORTHOTIC,!!!

We both look at him. I hadn't seen his new orthotic because he keeps it in his right shoe. When he took it out, there was this extra piece put on that was supposed to oft load the ulcer but it didn't. It wasn't made right.

The doctor said "these people DID NOT DO A GOOD JOB."

He told Alan to use the old orthotic and contact the guys who made the new one and tell them what happened. I'm doing this tomorrow morning.

Also, he calls me over to watch what he's doing and he shows me "Look at Alan's ulcer, look at the pus". I said "but there was no pus yesterday" He said "It traveled".

So he cleaned everything up, put on what he had to put on, told me tomorrow around 12 p.m. to do what I always have done with Alan's foot (I have all the stuff in the house). and bring him back to the doctor on Saturday.

I asked him about red lines, hotness and there was none of that. He said "thank god you lanced it yesterday, you did a good job".

So right now, he has been fever free for 24 hours, he feels fine. and the doctor really thinks he never had the flu but the infection in his body gave him the fever.

Just wanted to update.

thanks much

Melody

That sounds truly awful.

I hope the medication helps.

Well, he ate dinner like a horse, he just had his coffee and a small piece of cake, and I'm sure later he will have one of those sugar free eskimo pies.

This man has an infection???????

lol

Melody

yes, i hope it heals quickly. treat one thing, cause another, its a vicious cycle. get well soon.

FWIW, my podiatrist made me a new set of orthotics. I wore them at the gym and figured I needed to break them in. So I kept wearing them over the next couple of weeks and I kept getting blisters on the soles of my feet. I only discovered them when I actually looked at my feet because I don't feel them happening. At first I was stumped and I didn't put 2 and 2 together. I finally went back to the podiatrist and he had them put a different cover material on them initially and that was causing the problem. Who would have thought!!