As I mentioned, the fact that my husband has been out of it for several days is another story and here that story is. We rented our old house. It had grout. The grout was dirty. He tried to clean the grout so we could get our deposit back. He did this for 8 hours. On his knees. With no knee pads.
When he got home, he couldn’t walk. By the next day they hurt so much he couldn’t get out of bed. Then they started to form pustules. He popped a couple but they kept coming. By the next day he was in enough pain to call the on call nurse. She said 2 days bed rest and aspirin. The next day the pustules started to ooze and it became apparent that each pustule was connected to the others because he could push on one and have gunk ooze out another on the other side of the knee. It looked like John Cusack after he gets radiation poisoning in ‘Fat Man Little Boy’, just very localized. The forth day wasn’t much better but he started popping the little buggers more because the pressure was so much. FINALLY on the fifth day, he started to turn a corner and made it up and down the stairs in less than 10 minutes. If you touch his knee it still hurts a lot though. The bruises are diminishing and he’s able to sleep better than before. He still walks kinda funny though – like he’s saddle sore.
Diagnosis, me? Pressure sores or chemical burns. I’m leaning toward chemical burns but can’t find any good pictures to confirm.