cellulitus... sp?

well, it turns out the reason my leg was hurting was not that i pulled a muscle, i have a skin infection... woo hoo. they kept asking me at the hospital if i had been cut or bumped or if i'd tried a new kind of soap. i had not, as far as i could tell. i told them that i had stretched and felt a pain there, and i asked the dr. if this would be a muscle pull/tear. she asked, 'why would it be puffy and red?'

'i don't know,' i said, 'i'm dumb i guess.' i think i shouldn't try to diagnose myself anymore.

so i guess when i had stretched and felt that pain, it was the early infection i felt, not pulling a muscle. i do feel better about that, i'd hate to think it was self-inflicted.