Pennsylvania

The summer we got married Brad was working in Washington DC... well that's what the initial plan was. All of May Brad was in DC working and I was in California  getting ready for the wedding. I so excited to move to DC for the summer and had a job all lined up and a white house tour planned also...BUT a week before we got married Brad switched companies and locations. Instead of living in DC we would live in Pennsylvania! I was a bit bummed because I thought... what does Pennsylvania have to offer besides Amish quilts and hand crafted woodwork? I was ready for the adventure and was mostly just excited to be married!

Two days before we got married Brad flew home with a little bug bite on his leg. We didn't worry about it though it was just a "mosquito bite." By the time we boarded the plane after the wedding it had turned into a little rash that progressively got worse over time.

Just the start

As Brad kept working it kept spreading and oozing. Gross I know. We decided it was time to go see a doctor, BUT Brad doesn't have any health insurance so we had to go to a clinic in Harrisburg, PA. It was THE sketchiest place ever. I thought I had seen the ghetto before but realized I hadn't until then. We were worried our car wouldn't be there when we came back out or at least that the tires would be gone. (ok maybe I'm exaggerating a bit) The clinic was really run down and usually in doctors offices there are cupboards and jars full of cotton balls and stuff. Not here, there were cupboards with chains around the handles that were locked and the counters were bare. Then the doc came in who said very little. The appointment basically went like this...

Doc- "So what do you think it is?"

Brad- "A staph infection"

Doc- "Yeah your probably right."

silence....

Doc- "Here is your prescription"

(Hands Brad a little piece of paper then leaves)

It was quite the experience but the whole visit and prescription cost $15 total so no complaining! Plus our car was all intact when we got outside! Below are pictures of the infection at its peak.

Due to the fact that staph can kill you and that Brad had to keep his leg elevated to keep the blood from flowing and spreading the infection anymore, he couldn't work. We got to spend a lot of time together just relaxing. We didn't have internet or TV so we just hung out and occasionally went out to Amish country and to Hershey, PA (the land of chocolate!) It was quite an eventful first month of marriage!