Submitted by flyingmops t3_yx7kpa in tifu
It happened sometimes last week, I accidently cut myself while wiping. No biggie, it happens and it usually heals up just fine. This time was different!
Unfortunately I got really ill with a bad cold/virus, a few days later, which made me bed bound for the whole weekend, I took all sorts of OTC medicin to combat the nasty as best I could. Ofcourse, that also meant I wasn't showering.
When I finally did, I could definitely feel soreness coming somewhere down there, near my urethra. I rinsed, and tried my best not to think about it.
But yesterday I could hardly walk, it hurt when I peed. And it hurt when I was sitting down, so I decided to go have a look, by sitting on a mirror. Unfortunately we don't have one, so after a few fails at taking pictures on my phone, I had to ask my husband to have a look. He said it looked like an infected crater.
I showered, while thoroughly cleaning the area, with a pain so immense, I almost fainted. From what I gathered from the grainy pictures I managed to take, it looked like the area was white on a red surface.
So today I trotted off to the doctors, feeling very embarrassed from not only infecting a little cut like that, but also making such a cut to begin with!
I'm back home now, have showered again, with another assault of immense pain. Only to have yet another shock, when the antibiotics was applied.
I'm on the couch, seriously considering of just going to bed, to forget all about this throbbing pain! I'm convinced everytime I wee, I'm reopening that tiny cut!
TL;DR: cut myself on my inner labia, near the urethra. Then it got infected from not showering. Followed by Immense pain when weeing, showering and applying the antibiotic cream. Do not cut yourself! Even accidently.
TuckerCarlsonsOhface t1_iwnf4zk wrote
It seems like the lesson is not “don’t cut yourself” (especially since it’s impossible to stop accidents from happening), but “don’t let a wound go uncleaned”, since that’s actually within your power.