An Unfenced Existence

So what i haven't actually mentioned here yet is that I haven't been to work since Monday. On Monday two co-workers took one look at me and was all, "ZOMG! YOU! ER! NOW!" And I was, "Oh, no, I'm fine! Srsly!" And then burst into tears which destroyed any argument. I managed to talk them down and M. took me to see the nurse practioner and M.'s comment on that was, "I've never seen anyone want to leave a room so fast." And then we went back to work and I spent a pretty miserable day there.

NP prescribed steriods, again. Since I had a derm. appointment on Thurs., at the time I figured I could make it four days.

I did't go to work on Tuesday. I woke up with my lips and eyes swollen like Monday only it was worse. So I stayed home and took 75 milligrams of Bendadryl every four hours along with 400 milligrams of Ibuprofen. (Oh yeah, I was really hyped up on the meds on Tuesday.) The only problem was, I broke out into a secondary rash (small, papular rash that covered all the areas that the eczema doesn't including some areas that it does). I freaked thinking it was a staph infection (not uncommon with wet eczema which I was experiencing) called the advice nurse and she was said, "You can go to urgent care, or you can see Dr. K. tomorrow."

Well, you all know me, I decide not to go to urgent care (but I was really, really close to choosing that option) and made an appointment with Dr. K. and had Dad drive me there. She prescribed that I start taking the damn steriods (I actually was going to go get them the day before, but I felt so shitty I didn't really want to move), along with two generic pepcid for the anti histamine effect along with another anti-histamine for the itching. She also gave me a doctor's note that excused me from work until Monday. I argued with her, saying that I'd probably feel better by Friday and said, We can always change the note, but I sincerely doubt you'll fell better by then.

So I go home, take all the drugs and fall asleep on the couch again. (BTW I've been sleeping on the couch for the past two days.) By evening, I feel better, not great, but better. I fall asleep on the couch that evening, and am rather excited to go to the dermatologists tomorrow.

Well, you all know what happened with that.

Right, I'm feeling pretty good. In terms of the rash and the swelling. (My lower legs, esp. my right one, have been swollen for a really long time, ever since I noticed the swelling in my ankle from my trip down to The Beach, it's come and gone. My legs finally look leg shaped again.) My ear hurts like hell and my stomache is upset at me at the moment, but other than that I feel fine.

I guess I'll clean my room *now* while I'm so hyped up on steriods I probably won't feel anything.

Dear Body,

It would be ever so helpful and kind of you to stop negatively reacting to everything new that comes along. This is no way to make friends with foreign substances. I must ask that you cease and desist on this course that you have been taking for the last nine months. If you continue on like this, I'm just going to have to cut you out of my will, and then where will you be? HUH? HUH?

♥♥♥,
Me