Posts Tagged ‘health’

03
Aug
2021

And so it predictably comes right back around.

categories: personal, television shows; word count: 162 words

So Bub accidentally bit me during a meltdown…

…and since I was on 40mg prednisone at the time, it turned into severe cellulitis.

He also caused injury to the site that he bit me at, hence the cellulitis.

The story of my life seems to be “no dose of prednisone is low enough to stop all of these side effects,” even though my spirometry clearly needed it. I had to get a tetanus shot at urgent care due to it and was placed on antibiotics (clindamycin, to be exact). Fortunately my stomach can tolerate it, which wasn’t the case for the Omnicef that I was put on for that Staph infection, but it does seem to be making me a little bit tired…

That is preferable though. I’ll learn to deal with it. I don’t like being tired, though. But I hate nausea.

Also, if you don’t already know, the Supernatural fandom is still very alive and well after the show’s end.

31
Jul
2021

I tried hard, y’all. I really and truly did try here.

categories: personal; word count: 206 words

After managing to stay off of prednisone long enough to get the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 shot, and then managing to stay off of prednisone for fourteen days (long enough to produce satisfactory antibodies, or so we’re hoping), I had to go back on prednisone — my spirometry clearly demanded it, and in no uncertain terms. That begs the question of how robust my immune system really is after staying off of prednisone for as long as I did and then practically bouncing back onto it, but it’s not as though I had that much of a choice given that we are in the middle of a global pandemic that the United States is not responsibly handling. I mean, just look at the Delta variant sweeping across it, and look how many governors we have who say that masks should be “personal responsibility”, refusing to mandate them in probable large part because they want to get re-elected and think that imposing a(nother) mask mandate would hurt their chances at said re-election. It’s really absurd. And we are living through what may be the worst of it.

I hate the fact that I needed prednisone to begin with, but in this case it absolutely was what it was.

13
Jul
2021

I’d just like to make antibodies to this, please.

categories: personal; word count: 227 words

My body wants to do prednisone. It is clearly whining for prednisone.

But I want to make antibodies against COVID-19, so I am going to delay prednisone for at least twelve more days. Given the kill count that COVID-19 has, it is in my best interest to make antibodies. If that means ball and chain to my nebulizer, taking Benadryl every four hours, I will do what I have to do. Due to my health problems, I am at particularly high risk of complications from COVID if I do manage to catch it. I would have gotten vaccinated sooner than I did, but I needed to be off of prednisone long enough to make this possible… I needed to be able to make antibodies to the shot. And of course my lungs are going to come in at the bottom of the ninth and try to fuck this up, but I’m not about to let them. Like I said, if I have to ball and chain myself to my nebulizer and take Benadryl every four hours, that will just be something that I have to do long enough to be able to make these antibodies. I’d rather not be totally defenseless against the real thing here.

I suppose I’ll see how this goes in the coming… oh, I know exactly when, twelve days. This will be fun.

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