Cautiously "good" news:

My partner checked the area and redness has gone down. It is swollen but not as red. No streaking. Took my 12th dose of Keflex (40 doses total is the full course). Basically, the point at which I was going to go to the hospital is if there was no positive change in the direction of healing or it got worse.

To go to the hospital, we are looking for signs of worsening such as :

1) Increased redness + increased swelling

2) Red streaks moving outward to new tissue

3) fever

4) disorientation

The reason why it's wait and see at home, has to do with the fact that my immune system has been put to sleep from the Prednisone (why healing from infection has been so slow), and so I can catch a plethora of things at the hospital including COVID.

This could be so so so much worse,

KNOCK ON WOOD.

Please still keep me in your thoughts, I'm not out of the hot water quite yet 🥺

Let's hope for reduced swelling by tomorrow morning 🤞

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