staph + infection

!staph×!infection×

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staph + infection
I woke up on Friday morning in serious pain and the entire right side of my face was swollen and distorted!
staph + infection
Ouch. I went to the doctor and it turned out to be another staph infection. He hypothesized that I picked up a different type of staph bacteria in Thailand from scuba equipment that hadn't been properly sterilized. Divers, take note! (After you're done marveling at my Rudolph-red nose, if you look at my jawline, you'll notice that one of my lymph nodes is so swollen that you can actually see it!)