Just called the doc – update on RMSF

No labs back yet. Apparently they take weeks. But a couple people have told me that I shouldn’t be getting more rash (that’s why it’s called “spotted” fever) once I started the antibiotics. Today is day 4 on them and my feet look like they’ve got measles, and i have a few spots on my face and hands too. And the pain is incredible still. Found out the hard way I’m allergic to darvocet. So Doc is calling me in a scrip for Tylenol 3 instead.

Urgh.

So I’m curled up in bed with some hot coffee and my laptop. I have a long email to answer, and have to work on the biz website today too. Somewhere in the middle of it I’ll take a long HOT bath because that’s the only place I feel less painful. The other day I ran the HW tank dry about four times, keeping that tub hot.

So this serves as a warning to everyone who might read anything I write – codeine tends to make me blunter and, ironically, more prone to be wordy.