kinda scary, slightly off topic

[pinkjimiphoton]

about a week ago, i had an ovation guitar amp headpiece preamp come in.

while i was wrangling it apart to see what was wrong with it, i squished my finger a little bit. in doing so. a couple hours later, where i'd squished it and broke the skin slightly on one of them sharp solder blobs sticking out of the bottom side of the circuit board,
i had a little "zit" appear there a couple hours later.
by the next morning, it was a HUGE zit. by the end of the day, they started popping up all over the place. went to the dr, got it treated, probable mrsa.
got the results in. definite mrsa. from breaking the skin messing with an old circuit, a barely perceptible poke/scratch.
a week later on multiple antibiotics, this is where i'm left half way thru treatment.
scary shit for a guitar player. i may still be able to avoid 10days on iv antibiotics, if it keeps improving. its about 1/3rd the area it was, and 90% of the swelling is gone...




obviously, lead etc isn't great for us, but remember please to WASH YOUR HANDS when done tinkering, cuz ya never know what environment old gear has been in, and what it may contain.

so far, i am lucky. don't let this happen to you!
but if it does? get to a dr right away, this shit can KILL you dead.

a PSA from a dumbass who never worried about this shit.... til now

[Mark Hammer]

Glad it's improving.  But if it starts growing a white beard, WORRY!   

[GibsonGM]

Holy crap dude, get well!  That reminds me of when I put a pulp hook thru my arm!  Just from a  dirty solder blob??? 

A lot of barn finds....mice pee on everything....ack...

[vigilante397]

Yikes Glad you're okay man, hope it goes back to normal quickly. After years of being told to wash my hands after soldering (and use a fume extractor, and keep the workplace tidy, etc. ) you may have just scared me into it!

[pinkjimiphoton]

it's 1/3rd the size it was yesterday, and about 90% bigger than the original "zit". it WAS 1/2 way to my knuckle 3 days ago.
huge improvement.
was sick as a dog for a couple days too.

yeah... from a sharp solder blob, sticking out of the bottom of a board while i was finessing the chassis out of an almost tuck-n-roll kinda cabinet, just kinda barely caught it with the hand kinda thing, and it got between  my finger and the cabinet, not even enough to really hurt. felt slightly bruised. you know the drill. crazy. tiny little hole that didn't even bleed!

i bet it is indeed from barn finds and old estates and crap, and mice and bugs that get into all kindsa stuff.
i'm lucky i didn't get this before, with all the old unwanted organs i parted over the years that sat in garages and dank basements and barns and crap for years. hell, i used to go to the dump to swipe electronics outta their electronics scrap heap and get stuff from the swap shed.

so.. be careful.

and thanks for the good wishes.

mark, when it winked at me, i poked its eyeball out 










all i need, a mini me like what happened to bruce campbell in evil dead lol

i'm gonna keep a pump-bottle of that hand sanitizer stuff on my bench i think from now on.

[Ice-9]

Jeez man that was bad bollocks Jimmy. just goes to show what shit is lurking and ready to mess with ya life. Take care and recovery soon.

[Kevin Mitchell]

when it winked at me, i poked its eyeball out 

[GibsonGM]

[pinkjimiphoton]

[Rob Strand]

so far, i am lucky. don't let this happen to you!
but if it does? get to a dr right away, this shit can KILL you dead.

You mentioned you had an infected finger in the other thread but I didn't realize you did it on that unit.
When the red spreads you know you could have some trouble.

[amptramp]

Those of us who collect antique radios live in fear of hanta virus since mice tend to live among things in storage.  I hadn't heard of mrsa before this and wonder how I ever avoided it.  Hope for a swift recovery!

[aron]

Wow, that is spooky. Glad you are getting better.

[Rixen]

guy I work with got pricked en mass by a computer motherboard. Every single puncture got infected

[italianguy63]

nasty... gross..

Get better Jimi!

[MrStab]

wtf!! that's called a "superbug" round these parts, and hospital wards are closed off because of it. glad you got seen to quickly, Jimi.

...and i thought the only thing to be phobic about with music electronics repairs was athlete's foot. lol

[pinkjimiphoton]

took 6 days to get this far. tonite, when i changed the dressing, most of the redness is finally gone. i feel incredibly lucky, my son gotta mrsa infection in his hand at work <he's a welder in maryland> and almost lost his hand over it. 200 g worth of surgery later, they saved the hand, but the function is seriously impaired.

i sent a pic to my "family dr"... the one who told me it looked like nothing. sumbitch said, well, jerry garcia only needed 9 fingers.

i was like... bitch.... wrong freekin hand!! lol

its a good thing he's one of my best friends, cuz right now he deserves a quick rochambeau. lol

thanks guys.



but,  i feel MUCH better NOW!!

[thermionix]

got pricked en mass

[pinkjimiphoton]

got pricked en mass

a whole bag of them lmao!!

[bluebunny]

Crikey.  I had no idea this pedal lark was so freakin' dangerous!   

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BTW, who the hell is "Mrs A"?  I know who "Mrs B" is...   

[Sooner Boomer]

Hope you make it through the antibiotics OK, Jim.  I've been fighting mrsa infections in my feet for going on two years now.  I've gotten to the point where my digestive system can hardly stand antibiotics.  Lotsa fun!