Fever update

[amanda_lodden]

The fever is because the blisters are infected, which explains why they hurt so much more.

John took me to Urgent Care, which I absolutely loved. Unfortunately, the only injectable antibiotic they had is based on penicillin, and I'm allergic. So Urgent Care sent me to the Emergency Room.

I am not impressed with the Emergency Room. They decided to make treating the sprained ankle (from rolling my foot to avoid walking on the blisters) a priority over treating the fever, and it was two and a half hours before they gave me any antibiotics.

But now I have antibiotics, and it's slowly getting better.

Comments

[greyweirdo.livejournal.com]

:(

Wow, that sorta injected your last couple of days with a full dose of suck, didn't it?

[amanda_lodden.livejournal.com]

It certainly changed the tone of the vacation dramatically for me.

Ugh

[mike o'connor (from livejournal.com)]

I hate getting sick on a trip, having to fight through goofy medical situations to get treatment _while_ you're sick. I had a similar experience awhile back in L.A. and it was awful. Since then, I've maintained a "stash" of amoxicillin, vicodin, and codeine-laced cough syrup in my travel bag, to avoid exactly the experience you describe.

Get well soon!

Re: Ugh

[amanda_lodden.livejournal.com]

I can't take codeine-- it gives me horrible, nasty hallucinations. Vicondin is codeine based.

I also can't take penicillin, and a lot of doctors shy away from giving me most of the -cillins because they're afraid they will also react.

At the Urgent Care place, I was telling John "thank you for making me come here" because I resisted the idea for a while. At the ER, I was telling John "I hate this place" and "I want to go home". That's the difference in the level of care. But the ER had non-penicillin injections, so I had to go there.