Last night I discovered two new side effects: a rash on my arms and a swollen tonsil.\u00c2\u00a0 Only my right tonsil.\u00c2\u00a0 Swollen like a little ball.<\/p>\n
Apparently the rash is common.\u00c2\u00a0 There is another woman who is doing the same Interferon sequence as I am and apparently she developed it on her arms and her legs on Friday; I was unaware, as I was asleep.\u00c2\u00a0 I got it Saturday.\u00c2\u00a0 Right as I was going to sleep.\u00c2\u00a0 I mentioned something about itchy arms, and my mom sprang into motion.\u00c2\u00a0 We went searching for the benedryl cream.\u00c2\u00a0 It turns out mom loaned it to the neighbors the day before.\u00c2\u00a0 So my dad went over to ask the neighbors to borrow it back, but they couldn’t find it.\u00c2\u00a0 So then he goes off to the closest 24hr pharmacy (oh, for this I miss New York.)\u00c2\u00a0 And about three minutes after he leaves the phone rings and it is the neighbors saying they found it.\u00c2\u00a0 I tell my mother, who calls my dad on the cell phone.\u00c2\u00a0 The last thing I hear before the Ambien drags me under is the sound of my Father’s cell phone ringing in my parents room, and my mother quietly cursing.<\/p>\n
I spent almost the entire day in bed, and ate very little.<\/p>\n
In the evening, I rallied and went with my parents to a marriage reception for a family friend. There were a couple of people there who I wanted to see, a ton of people I didn’t know, and almost no one in-between. I made it an hour.\u00c2\u00a0 i was fine and then all of a sudden I knew I had passed my threshold and had to go.\u00c2\u00a0 When I arrived I had a little jump in my step; I was alert and ready to handle whatever social stuff might come at me.\u00c2\u00a0 By the time I left I was shuffling my feet, and had my arms wrapped around my torso in self-comfort\/self-defense.<\/p>\n
I was proud that I made it at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Last night I discovered two new side effects: a rash on my arms and a swollen tonsil.\u00c2\u00a0 Only my right tonsil.\u00c2\u00a0 Swollen like a little ball. Apparently the rash is common.\u00c2\u00a0 There is another woman who is doing the same Interferon sequence as I am and apparently she developed it on her arms and her … Continue reading Weekend 1, new side effects<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[25,33,30,14,13,29],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-update","tag-fatigue","tag-parents","tag-portland","tag-sick","tag-side-effects","tag-tired"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}