http://yarroway.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] yarroway.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] sick_wilson2011-06-30 12:54 pm

Name That Diagnosis

Hello, Campers!

While the writers amongst you are, I hope, feverishly scribbling away at menolly_au's Have Wilson--Will Travel challenge, I thought the rest of us could play a game. 

So, someone will post a list of symptoms, and everyone else tries to diagnose the patient.  Like in Wheel of Misfortune, whoever gets the correct answer must provide the next set of symptoms.  In honor of Menolly's challenge, some of our conditions could relate to travel or conditions in foreign countries, or for that matter stress of traveling itself. Bear in mind that anything that can happen in New Jersey can happen in Bermuda too.

Wilson walks into a clinic in the tropics, fresh off the airplane.  He complains of problems with his leg:

Redness
Warmth
Swelling

What's wrong with him?

[identity profile] cellista-in-c.livejournal.com 2011-07-01 02:57 am (UTC)(link)
Oh no! Does he have smallpox?

[identity profile] only-po.livejournal.com 2011-07-01 03:02 am (UTC)(link)
he does not :(

additional clue: taking unneeded antibiotics is never a good idea

[identity profile] damigella-314.livejournal.com 2011-07-01 08:10 am (UTC)(link)
I haven't the faintest clue, but thanks for supporting my pet peeve that
taking unneeded antibiotics is never a good idea.

[identity profile] only-po.livejournal.com 2011-07-01 12:04 pm (UTC)(link)
That's a bit of a pet peeve of mine too!

Additional additional clue: for the sake of easy look-up, let's say the antibiotic is Levaquin.

(I do not mean to impune Levaquin in any way so please don't sue! It's only that I know for a fact there's a website out there about Levaquin with the information you're looking for.)

[identity profile] barefootpuddles.livejournal.com 2011-07-01 03:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Epidermal necrolysis (or Lyle's syndrome)? Though I admit I would have never guessed this without your hints.

My original guess was going to be Hand, Foot, Mouth Disease which fit nicely until I read that adults only get mild cases.

[identity profile] only-po.livejournal.com 2011-07-01 10:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Got it! :)

(Sorry I ended up being so cryptic.)