What to do about infection from IV?

Nurse inserted IV incorrectly in vein on left hand last Sunday. Another nurse opened a vein in opposite arm and I was released the same day
My left arm is painful and has begun to swell. I am taking 500 mg penicillin for tonsillitis infection and 75 mg cortisone acetate for adrenal insufficiency with instructions to reduce dosage to 37.5 per day over the next 10 days
Arm is bothering me. Soaked it in epsom salts the last two days but it remains same. Thought being on Penicillin and Cortisone would resolve this problem too.
It's hell to be an old woman! (64)
I've been on steroids since I was 22 for adrenal insufficiency with side effects appearing the last few years: loosing elasticity in skin; cataracts; limited resistance to illnesses.
Awaiting for diabetes - seems to be the only side effect I don't have - or maybe I do and don't know it.
I know I should return to hospital and show them my arm, but don't want to to sit in Emergency for half a day.

Apply ice. Otherwise, apply icthammol glycerine with cotton twice a day. There may be staph. infection, which is penicillin resistant. Take cloxacillin, flucloxacillin or methicillin. Fucidin applied locally is also effective for staph.

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