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…
Since I haven’t addressed this in here yet.
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