Painfull Infection

Mary Jo returned from a working trip to Amsterdam last Thursday and started feeling ill hours later.  She thought she had picked up a bug from one of her co-workers on the trip.  Her co-worker had complained at pick up in Amsterdam that she had been up all night, sick  so naturally that's how Mary Jo thought she got it.  However this did not feel like the typical flue bug.  I urged Mary Jo to go in to urgent care and get it checked out because she was complaining of pain in her left breast and there was a lot of redness and swelling.  The doctor at urgent care said that Mary Jo had a Cellulitis which is a spreading bacterial infection just below the skin surface.  The likely cause would be the implant.  Mary Jo was prescribed a strong antibiotic and pain meds.  She is scheduled to see her plastic surgeon Dr Jacqueline Luong on Friday.