Posts Tagged ‘health’

15
Mar
2022

Since I haven’t addressed this in here yet.

categories: personal; word count: 247 words

I had to go to the local hospital on Sunday to get IV antibiotics because, having been on prednisone when Bub pinched my arm in several locations during meltdowns, those pinch marks became infected with Staph since they had broken the skin. The precipitating event was that, in spite of fastidious cleanliness, it managed to jump to the left side of my body where it rapidly moved each day for three days. Urgent care didn’t feel like they could adequately treat that… level of infection, so I was sent to the local hospital. After waiting for several hours, which I expected but found no more entertaining, I was eventually called back, gave several vials of blood to check for different things, and their determination was the same as mine — Staph infection (especially because I have a prior history of opportunistic Staph infections of the skin), and they were going to defer to urgent care’s recommendation that I receive IV antibiotics. Their goal was to bridge me to oral antibiotics as soon as possible, but given the severity of this, I had to be given a medication that I’m allergic to because the allergy is not severe or anaphylactic. I just take Benadryl along with it and report anything more than “a mild to moderate inconvenience” to my care team. Worst case, I head back up to the local hospital. So far I am managing to strag along just itching, which I will gladly accept in light of…

10
Mar
2022

Prednisone hates me and still clearly hates me.

categories: personal; word count: 258 words

I’ve seen the doctor once for this and I was prescribed antibiotic gel to put on the wound at dressing changes, but… that isn’t actually going well, so I will probably have to see the doctor again for the wounds that Bub gave me on my right arm pinching me while having meltdowns, because apparently he broke skin and now it is infected. I also have a few other surface-level Staph infections on random places on my skin that continue to be and stay bandaged and are hidden by clothes, but I’ve been off of prednisone long enough to be able to get my booster COVID-19 shot (finally!). I think at the end of the day, prednisone has broken me as I’ve referenced several times already in here. I wouldn’t have taken it again if my primary care doctor and pulmonologist didn’t tell me to continue the burst and taper that I had been prescribed due to a worsening of asthma symptoms. And on top of that, I feel like I should have held out for the J&J booster rather than get the Pfizer booster recommended by the pharmacy because I actually feel sick, not just “feel sick” like you do when you get immunized and your body is beginning to make antibodies to fight actual contact of the virus with should the need ever arise (as it likely will during, well, a pandemic of all things).

Either that or I should have waited longer than I did to get re-vaccinated even if I waited “long enough”…

01
Feb
2022

I need to come up with clever subject lines.

categories: personal; word count: 200 words

As probably predicted, I am still trying to get off of the prednisone train.

However, I absolutely needed it yesterday when Fioricet did not work.

I was actually at about a nine out of ten on the pain scale.

And I still hate this medication… I really, truly do. My body just does not like it any more.

In other news, our dryer died a peaceful death of old age last weekend. We contacted an appliance repair specialist about it that was supposed to come out to our house to see if it could be repaired (and if so, how much that would cost), but they never showed, and they never even called to let us know that they would not be showing. So we have to follow up on that. This afternoon, someone is supposed to bring a new dryer to our house so that we can actually dry our clothes without having to hang them after they’ve been washed. Good times… I guess. I guess we’ll be seeing how that goes in several hours when it should arrive.

We usually run two dryers here, so the jury is still out on whether this one can actually be repaired.

22
Jan
2022

Here we’ve got Omicron, screwing up more shit.

categories: personal; word count: 207 words

Since more and more hospitals are going back to doing only necessary surgery, the work-up for severe diastasis recti that I was undergoing seems to have to be shelved. Since I don’t intend on having any more children, it wouldn’t have been a significant bother for me to undergo surgery to correct it, and I could lower my dose of prednisone if needed such that it would be as safe as it was ever going to be — assuming, of course, that I ever took it again, which I don’t want to because my body has finally gotten to the point where it can no longer manage oral steroids without sometimes significant problem. I mean, if they do it at any point during this pandemic, they do it. I’d ideally like it to be done as soon as possible so that I can get it done and heal from it, but if it’s not safe to do because COVID-19 cases are once again climbing and we have a mutation out there that more people are susceptible to… then I’ll wait. Even though I won’t like it…

And the saddest thing of all is that this could have been picked up on years earlier than it was even noticed.

16
Jan
2022

I am never taking this stuff again, I swear.

categories: personal; word count: 227 words

The amoxicillin that I finish taking today has given me some of the worst migraines of my life, so I’m going to ask at the next consult of mine that requires the use of them if… something else other than amoxicillin can be given. Usually Fioricet helps to a point, making things bearable even when it does not fully help, but we’ve been at the point now where it is not helping at all. Without consulting my medical history, someone asked me “if I could take aspirin” or “if I could take Ibuprofen”, not knowing that my asthma reacts to those and that I would have to be on albuterol, Benadryl, and prednisone to even have a shot. If this keeps up though I’m going to single-dose prednisone to make life bearable until I am actually done with this antibiotic. Although I concede that amoxicillin helped with the gum and jaw infection that prednisone… gave me, I do not want to have to take the poison to “get rid” of the poison. This is literally the name of the chronically ill game, I swear.

I hate the side effects of prednisone, don’t get me wrong, but I really hate being in severe pain. It is what it is.

And I actually mean it when I say “I’m never taking this stuff again”. I’m asking for another antibiotic.

09
Jan
2022

And prednisone is still out here in these streets.

categories: personal, television shows; word count: 438 words

I’ve finished up one of the antibiotics which was for fungal infections and only lasted a few days. Now I have to finish up the other antibiotic, which runs the gamut lasting about as long as these things tend to last, and I have to finish up the low dose of prednisone that both of my doctors want me to end up on (followed by me never touching prednisone again unless it is an imminent, and I mean imminent, matter of life and death… and even then, assuming that I have any choice in the matter by way of having it charted in my medical files, I’m going to want something else first if I can be given something else). There actually seems to be some improvement with the gum and jaw infection that prednisone caused, although I need a lower dose of prednisone to cause the swelling on that side of my mouth to go down and stay down. But for some reason I’ve been having worse migraines since all of this started, even (especially) for me. Par for the course, eh?

At some point I’m going to need to post something up here about “Thasmin going canon” since I’ve been a fan of Doctor Who for quite awhile. It’s actually kind of surprising that I haven’t so far. I got into Doctor Who with the 2012 Christmas special and haven’t looked back. The fandom is also a lot less vitriolic than the Supernatural fandom, and if all fandoms were even remotely like this — I’m aware that most generally are with minimal “fandom drama”, but some of them are not — I might consider going to a convention or two, or at least think about it, but I honestly think that with things the way they are in general right now my best bet is to continue to keep all fandom activities on the Internet (even the good people that I’ve met through them) and not allow them access to my real life. As it is, my real life is markedly different from my “fandom life” anyway to the tune of the fact that I maintain separate social media accounts for fandom-related activities and real ones, excluding Facebook where I run filters on everything so that people I know in real life very infrequently cross paths with those who I know on the Internet, and at that, those who like varying degrees of the favorite things that I do. I may talk about liking Supernatural on my Facebook page, but I scarcely mention anything related to the fandom… or fandoms in general, so no, it’s not “just Supernatural” here.

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