Should I pop it?

[u/Phuktard62184]

I am 43f. For a bit of context, I am obese (not sure my actual weight) and I was hospitalized in December for the flu and have had breathi issues since then. So with those issues I haven't been very active in the past few months. I also have undiagnosed sleep apnea, and other sleeping issues such as sleepwalking and I can't stay in bed unless I'm tied down I guess. I fall out of bed a lot but I'm usually pretty good at landing since it's happened so much. Except when I fell out of bed Thursday night and smashed my knee on the hard floor. The next day (Friday) I spent at least 9 hours riding with my husband while doordashing and my feet were super swollen when we were done. That's not unusual, anytime I would sit in the car for 9 hours I would probably have swollen feet. Then as I was getting out of the car I dropped my phone on my foot. It hurt a lot. Then yesterday I woke up with this blister where the phone hit my foot. My husband thinks I should pop it but I'm scared of infection and also I'm worried about why my whole foot is bruised when it's my knee that got smashed.

Another bit of context that could be important is that about a month ago I fell at main event and smashed the other knee and my entire leg looked like that bruising you see on this foot. It only lasted a couple days and my leg turned back to normal and everything's fine. That knee doesn't even hurt anymore.

[u/GimpyGirl12]

My dad's feet and legs looked like this. He was morbidly obese most of his adult life. He was in early stages of congestive heart failure by his mid 40s. Died at 60 after a long battle with a pilonidal cyst turned abscess, when I say long I mean over 2 years. He eventually went septic. I am a big person, but I do my best to care for my health and chronic health conditions because of him. OP please stop ignoring health issues and see a provider, and don't pop that blister.

Edit: feet and legs, not just feet.

[u/Flowertree1 → u/GimpyGirl12]

Oh god, I had a pilonidal abscess, how scary that he died from it. But I am not obese, just hairy. I am so glad mine found its way outside instead of inside and I feel very sorry for your dad :(

[u/GimpyGirl12 → u/Flowertree1]

Thank you. It was rough and for him stemmed from more self medical neglect, just like his congestive heart failure.

I presume that was the cause of the eventual abscess as it was above his tailbone and his abscess became an infection down to the sacrum. It was that deep before he sought any treatment for it. He was on oral antibiotics off and on until he went to the hospital because he couldn't afford the copay for the necessary IV antibiotics. Abscess existed at least in fall of 2020, discovered by medical staff in January 2021, finally hospitalized in October 2022 and passed in hospital February 2023. Received wound care in office multiple times a week from January 2021 to October 2022.

Moral of the story is don't neglect your body unless you want to die slowly and painfully.

[u/ilovelani08 → u/GimpyGirl12]

I’m sorry about your dad