On Thursday afternoon, I began to have a bruise like pain in my left knee and inner calf. I took a nap (to rest up for New Year s Eve evening festivities) and when I woke up, the pain/tenderness could be felt throughout my entire left leg. The leg also became very red and swollen with blotchy red spots on the inner calf part of the leg. My leg is still swollen, red and tender and today, a small patch on the lower, inner part of the leg (above my ankle, below my calf) looks pruney/slightly wrinkly and it is oozing a bit of clear fluid. Could this be shingles? (I had the chicken pox when I was a child)? If not, what other bizarre-ism could this be? (I am planning to try to see my PCM tomorrow, but I would like to be prepared for a potential diagnosis). THANKS! GN