h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

this got through mighty quick!

surely we're not running out of entries?!?!??!?


FABT

I prefer to think that it was just sooooo good it had to go in almost straight away....

Makes me think of my childhood. My mum - an ex-nurse - always used to tell us "don't scratch your spots, you'll get cellulitis". Now I know what it is! Thank you

My Dad had this last year as a result of untreated psoriasis cracking and becoming infected.

It's not a nice thing to get - particularly as the infection then caused him to get full body ezcema.... the poor thing was in hospital for TWO WEEKS being covered in different types of cream by nurses and bandaged up like the invisible man.....

Kind of like The Singing Detective, if anyone remembers that?!

Shouldn't smile, but he caused it himself through neglect....

I managed to get it through dancing barefoot at a Christmas Party!

How's that for unfortunate!

I've put a description of my troubles with it in here (though I still need to edit it a bit) : A683732 Suffering With Cellulitis

I was told when I was in 7th grade (about 13) that I had cellulitis on my face. The first time it shows up was a large bump on my forehead that was shiny, which i imagine had to do with my skin stretching. It never discolored, but was relatively hard. It would last a few days, and then slowly start to go away. It was pretty traumatic at that age to have a deformity, no matter how short it lasted.
As far as i knew, i did not have any form of broken skin, besides a few small bits of acne, which must have caused the infection. They put me on an anti-inflamatory to take care of the swelling, which i took for a few years. Every once in awhile it would show up somewhere on my face, even on my eyelid a few times.

In time the swelling did not show up, and since about 15, i have yet to have any of it again.

tarast