Sunny Skies and a Lurking Microbe

Sunny Skies and a Lurking Microbe

 The lab, Sunny Skies and a Lurking Microbe, discusses in detail the predicament one newly retired woman finds herself in after moving into a new condo and injuring her finger. The woman in question, Margo, decides to move to a condo community in Florida shortly after retiring. The condo includes all the amenities that Margo will need, including a spa-like pool area, nail salon, beauty shop, yoga studio, nutritionist, and therapeutic massage therapist. She decides to drive down to sunny Florida from Ohio in March, and with her she brings a few last minute items that could not be packed and shipped in boxes, including a flat screen TV. In her first week in Florida, she decides to finish unpacking and rearranging her belongings, which includes the wide screen TV. However, when she decides to move her wide screen TV from one place to another, she catches her right index finger on the plastic trim of the TV which results in a painful cut that bleeds more than she expects. To clean up, she decides to wash her wound with soap and water. After this, Margo decides to go for a swim, and then proceeds to get a massage and a manicure to help alleviate some of the aches and pains as well as repair the damage that the rearranging might have done. All seemed well with Margo for a few weeks, until she really started to take notice of her right index finger which was now swollen, reddening, warm to the touch, and painful. She decides to have her finger looked at by a physician after the throbbing became unbearable.

              Margo hadn’t had time to find a personal physician, so she resolves to go to an urgent care facility close to her condo. At the facility a PA (physician’s assistant) asks her numerous personal health questions, noting things such as her age, blood pressure, weight, heart rate, respiration rate, O2, and that she has type 2 diabetes. After her visit, Margo receives a patient information sheet that identified...