Painful inflammation from a chip off an old block

A woman is febrile with tender lymph nodes after a wound from a wooden splinter
Queenslander house

Jane, 32, is an artistic designer and enthusiastic indoor decorator. She lives in northern Queensland and is renovating an old Queenslander.

She came to see you three days ago with a painful inflamed area of skin on her left forearm, 2cm in diameter, surrounding the site of a wooden splinter.