I have a relative who has had a constant severe pain in her lower front
abdomen area for about 45 days.   The doctors have done a CAT scan,
ultrasound, MRI, and there were no remarkable growths or other signs to
explain the pain.    She did have a fracture on one vertebra, which was
successfully treated by a Kyphoplasty procedure, which injects a cement into
the affected column to reinflate the shape of the bone.   The doctors were
hoping that the frontal pain was neurological and that some affected nerve
would calm down after the Kyphoplasty.

Just yesterday, she has developed a large red rash running about six inches
high and all along one side of her front and back right in the lower abdomen
area that corresponds exactly to where her pain is felt.    A few of the
rashes appear to be bleeding into the skin.    Those few rashes almost look
like a meningitis, but she has none of the other symptoms you might expect
with that disease, just localized pain near the rash.    Specifically, she
has no high fever, chills, shivering, flushing, or sweating.   I don't see
how she could have a septicemia without some of those symptoms.

She will call a doctor Monday but the symptoms are alarming enough visually
that I am wondering if this is a medical emergency.   Any insights are
appreciated.