[sasha123]

Cellulitis can turn into Lymphengitis (sp?) and streak to the heart and enter the organs and cause the blood to become septic, poisoned. It doesn't always clear up easily - It took me 4 months to feel normal after it.

[VOA]

It took me 4 months to feel normal after it.

Took me well-nigh a year to recover from my leg infection.
But then having an ER doc prescribe me a steroid (prednisone)
instead of an antibiotic was what just about did me in.
Wish I'd had a camera to capture the doctor's face when he
saw my turning-blue leg 24 hours later. And muttered "uh, I
think we need antibiotics".

That taught me to always double-check the doctor's advice with the Internet.
As was said in an old comedy "Someone has to keep an eye on those geniuses."