Staph infection, sprained ankle, tablesaw accident

Do you think Joe has had a crazy enough couple of weeks? After Michael's campout, Joe's knee started bothering him. We had found a yellow jacket nest and Ellie had gotten bit, so Joe thought maybe he got bit too on his knee and he didn't feel it. By Sunday morning his knee hurt so badly that he couldn't walk. He went to a quick care center and they told him he had a staph infection! They gave him some IV antibiotics and sent him home with a prescription for more antibiotics. By Tuesday it was apparent that the antibiotics were not working. He went to an orthopedic doctor and an infectious disease specialist and they put him on a better antibiotic, but he had to go into the doctor's office to take in intravenously every day. The doctor also wrote a prescription for a super antibiotic that was super expensive, but told him only to get it if insurance paid for most of it. Luckily insurance did, so his doc took him off the IV antibiotics and told him to just take the prescription. He started to feel better after his doctor's visit, so he was up and about. The next day, while up and about, he tripped and fell and sprained his ankle. He also hit his infected knee, which made it hurt really badly. Upon further examination, he found that the antibiotics were no longer working. He went back to the doctor, and he was put back on the IV antibiotics. Finally, they installed a picc line and he has been giving himself antibiotics every morning since.

Here is his knee when it was really bad. It doesn't look horrible, but it got really swollen and tender and red in a couple of spots.
Here is Joe giving himself antibiotics. They have these neat packages that have the medicine in a a balloon and once he hooks the balloon up to his picc line, it slowly drains into his system. It is a lot nicer than sitting in a doctor's office.

Hopefully, in about a week, he will be done with the antibiotics and that will be it. His ankle is slowly healing.

Yesterday, he decided to work on some cutting boards he is making for a counter at our lake house. He was pushing the last piece of wood through the table saw and nicked his finger. It wasn't the finger of the hand that was pushing the wood through though, it was on the other hand. Here are some pics:

He opted to not get stitches, we'll see how that works out for him. Luckily he didn't get the bone, just the fleshy part of his finger and some of the nail.

I am currently working on designing a bubble for him to live in.