I feel like I'm being tested or something. SOMETHING.
Yesterday morning I got bit by a brown recluse (which has happened before) but not on my FACE. Sheesh. I had to take my unhappy self to my favorite urgent care, where I got treated for pneumonia the last time. They have the BEST nurse practitioner there, (which is really nice as typically in the Urgent Cares around here, they'll say you have pneumonia, give you a freaking nebulizer treatment, then send you home with penicillin. ) I think they have contracts with those old ABX manufacturers, which usually means that you get to follow up with your regular doc days later, and suffer in the meantime.
My nurse practitioner remembered me, and was SO HAPPY I quit smoking, on the day of dx he was like, "I'm going to give you X, Y, and Z, unless you plan to quit smoking." I was like, "Oh, hell, no," but then I came home and thought it over. He checked my lungs and was super happy, yay! He desired a fistbump, LOL.
The annoying thing about brown recluse bites is, unless you treat them IMMEDIATELY and VIRULENTLY, you'll end up with necrosis, which.... I have grave doubts about my insurance co wanting to do facial reconstruction for me, EVER. So, I'm BACK on abx, steroids and a steroid shot and a steroid cream, which I HATE. It was steroids that freaking.... Got me to the point I was ready to quit, so that I would NEVER have to take them again.
Despite feeling like total crap, and also feeling awful today and my cheek looks like it's melting, which is unfortunate. I mean, I'm not the VAINEST person of all time, but I really don't want necrosis, so I was like, STEROIDS it is, I STILL didn't smoke, and this time I REALLY REALLY REALLY wanted to. Illness is my achilles heel, but I was like damn, don't stop now, Anna. So, I DID not.
But, can I just say, to whomever up above, I'd really enjoy, you know, a few days of peace and quiet, and being able to go to work (I can't, I'm wretchedly ill, the poison in a brown recluse just takes over, I feel horrendously nauseous and it's not just the steroids or the abx (doxycycine, which seemed like a reasonable choice.) My NP was like "Usually we don't hand out abx UNLESS it gets infected."
"Dude, it's on my face, it's dripping pus, really, can't we do it prophylactically, I DON'T WANT an infection."
"I would feel the same way actually, so yes, we CAN do that."
Sigh, I see my PCP on Friday in case my guess was wrong, but having been bitten before, I knew what to do, with maybe a bit more franticness since it's on my damn FACE. This really sucks.
Sorry to whine, but let us call this Vapemiracle #4.
After catching my husband smoking I was like, dude, right now I need you to either a) smoke how much you want, even if it's less, but you can do it in front of me, that's TOTALLY preferable to you being a major JERK just now, so he did pull out his pipe last night and just got up and is smoking a cig right now, I'll bet. I so don't care, other than needing him to just PICK something already, due to my OWN misery. I can do my husband quitting if he actually QUITS, and suffers for a few weeks, I can't do my husband smoking stealthily and being an ... the rest of the time, because he thinks he's HIDING it and just being douchy in my face and whining about "quitting." I'm so glad I caught him, that was a major relief.... I think he really was just quitting because he thought that I would be unable to QUIT without him... It was helpful at first, but now? Not so much. Also, husband, you are like INSANE if you think that your behaviors around tobacco are going to dictate MINE. I am a grown ... ADULT.
God, I really feel awful just right this second, but I've been vaping away.... On the sofa where I plan to remain, the rest of the day, unless I go back to bed.
Sorry for the long whine....
Anna
Yesterday morning I got bit by a brown recluse (which has happened before) but not on my FACE. Sheesh. I had to take my unhappy self to my favorite urgent care, where I got treated for pneumonia the last time. They have the BEST nurse practitioner there, (which is really nice as typically in the Urgent Cares around here, they'll say you have pneumonia, give you a freaking nebulizer treatment, then send you home with penicillin. ) I think they have contracts with those old ABX manufacturers, which usually means that you get to follow up with your regular doc days later, and suffer in the meantime.
My nurse practitioner remembered me, and was SO HAPPY I quit smoking, on the day of dx he was like, "I'm going to give you X, Y, and Z, unless you plan to quit smoking." I was like, "Oh, hell, no," but then I came home and thought it over. He checked my lungs and was super happy, yay! He desired a fistbump, LOL.
The annoying thing about brown recluse bites is, unless you treat them IMMEDIATELY and VIRULENTLY, you'll end up with necrosis, which.... I have grave doubts about my insurance co wanting to do facial reconstruction for me, EVER. So, I'm BACK on abx, steroids and a steroid shot and a steroid cream, which I HATE. It was steroids that freaking.... Got me to the point I was ready to quit, so that I would NEVER have to take them again.
Despite feeling like total crap, and also feeling awful today and my cheek looks like it's melting, which is unfortunate. I mean, I'm not the VAINEST person of all time, but I really don't want necrosis, so I was like, STEROIDS it is, I STILL didn't smoke, and this time I REALLY REALLY REALLY wanted to. Illness is my achilles heel, but I was like damn, don't stop now, Anna. So, I DID not.But, can I just say, to whomever up above, I'd really enjoy, you know, a few days of peace and quiet, and being able to go to work (I can't, I'm wretchedly ill, the poison in a brown recluse just takes over, I feel horrendously nauseous and it's not just the steroids or the abx (doxycycine, which seemed like a reasonable choice.) My NP was like "Usually we don't hand out abx UNLESS it gets infected."
"Dude, it's on my face, it's dripping pus, really, can't we do it prophylactically, I DON'T WANT an infection."
"I would feel the same way actually, so yes, we CAN do that."
Sigh, I see my PCP on Friday in case my guess was wrong, but having been bitten before, I knew what to do, with maybe a bit more franticness since it's on my damn FACE. This really sucks.
Sorry to whine, but let us call this Vapemiracle #4.
After catching my husband smoking I was like, dude, right now I need you to either a) smoke how much you want, even if it's less, but you can do it in front of me, that's TOTALLY preferable to you being a major JERK just now, so he did pull out his pipe last night and just got up and is smoking a cig right now, I'll bet. I so don't care, other than needing him to just PICK something already, due to my OWN misery. I can do my husband quitting if he actually QUITS, and suffers for a few weeks, I can't do my husband smoking stealthily and being an ... the rest of the time, because he thinks he's HIDING it and just being douchy in my face and whining about "quitting." I'm so glad I caught him, that was a major relief.... I think he really was just quitting because he thought that I would be unable to QUIT without him... It was helpful at first, but now? Not so much. Also, husband, you are like INSANE if you think that your behaviors around tobacco are going to dictate MINE. I am a grown ... ADULT.
God, I really feel awful just right this second, but I've been vaping away.... On the sofa where I plan to remain, the rest of the day, unless I go back to bed.
Sorry for the long whine....
Anna
