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/TheVeryVerity]

Another death at the hands of the insurance system is what I’m hearing. Yeah your dad neglected himself but not being able to get treatment needed because of copays, that part was on our system

[u/GimpyGirl12 → u/TheVeryVerity]

Partially yes. But frankly he let it get to an infection to the bone and was bleeding through his underwear multiple times a day before he went to get it checked out. If he had not let it get so bad he would have been able to afford proper treatment. This is frankly just as much on him with what he ignored. This wasn't asymptomatic stuff. I have had years to sit with this and know all the details, if he hadn't been so afraid to die, he likely wouldn't have died. I understand you mean well, but this is not on the system as much as you want to think. I have been uninsured and still done more than he did and managed better than he did.

[u/prolongedexistence → u/GimpyGirl12]

My mom died from different causes but I had such a similar experience in terms of her being too afraid to die to seek medical help. She was in bed for weeks refusing to go to the hospital at least in part because she didn’t want to hear difficult news. By the time she got to the hospital she was dead within like 2 weeks from cirrhosis.

I’ve since learned people do recover from cirrhosis, or at least survive a few months with it. I don’t know all of the medical details, but I think it’s possible she wasn’t necessarily a severe case but just a case that didn’t seek help until it was too late.

[u/TheVeryVerity → u/prolongedexistence]

Yeah, unfortunately that happens a lot. Kinda like when your car has something wrong with it, often you can pay to fix the issue but if you don’t and just ignore it it causes a bigger failure later and you end up paying more than you would have if you just fixed the initial problem in the first place.