{"id":396,"date":"2009-06-10T21:17:35","date_gmt":"2009-06-11T01:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/?p=396"},"modified":"2009-06-10T21:17:35","modified_gmt":"2009-06-11T01:17:35","slug":"infections-and-fevers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/?p=396","title":{"rendered":"Infections and Fevers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have this *nasty* infected bug bite on my ankle: i couldn&#8217;t walk on friday, so I had to have an emergency trip to dr to get it looked at &amp; get antibiotics.  Spent the weekend in bed.  Finally walking by Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>Nobody told me not to do my regular injection, which I delayed from Sunday to Monday. (and I did go to the dermatologist Monday, even though i slept through that appointment and arrived an hour late &#8212; at 3:30PM!). Apparently the two drugs *do not* like each other. Or maybe my immune system is just that fucked.<\/p>\n<p>I spent the night with a blistering fever, yet shaking with cold tremors.  O said she almost threw me in the shower I was so hot (and kept asking for more blankets.)  It was the kind of shaking tremor that you just can&#8217;t control.  It sucked.  I couldn&#8217;t sleep.  Was up for good at 530, but couldn&#8217;t really move.  Just sitting on the couch trying to meditate some of it away.  then at 10am, I fell asleep, and slept all day. today I got up, and felt a good deal better, but still not great. And it has taken me 48 hrs to write this, b\/c i keep getting nauseous looking at the screen.<\/p>\n<p>On top of all of that, I left my syringe out &#8211; it has to stay refrigerated.  I only noticed it late the next day.  Two injections worth down the drain, er&#8230; sharps container.  That&#8217;s about $1500 worth of drugs.  Good think my co-pay is only $25 for a four pack&#8230;  It is the only time my insurance has really stood out.  That and major surgeries.  Everything else they screw me on.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-397\" title=\"photo-59\" src=\"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/photo-59.jpg\" alt=\"photo-59\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/photo-59.jpg 640w, https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/photo-59-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The other good thing is that because I had to do one week of half dose after I got sick (a good six or eight months ago), I have enough extra that I will be able to do all of my injections.  I won&#8217;t run out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have this *nasty* infected bug bite on my ankle: i couldn&#8217;t walk on friday, so I had to have an emergency trip to dr to get it looked at &amp; get antibiotics. Spent the weekend in bed. Finally walking by Monday night. Nobody told me not to do my regular injection, which I delayed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/?p=396\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Infections and Fevers<\/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":[14,13,15,29],"class_list":["post-396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-update","tag-sick","tag-side-effects","tag-sleep","tag-tired"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396","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=396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":398,"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396\/revisions\/398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}