Cipro Watch

It’s been 15 minutes since I took my morning Cipro. I’m starting to get dizzy. Upgrade: So far it’s been a lot easier on my stomach than the other two. Yeah! Downgrade: I constantly feel like I’m motion sick. The floaty, dizziness that make me feel like the bottom of my chest is shivering all the time. I can’t explain it. It’s not acid-filled, stomach churn like last week. This one it churns because I’m dizzy. I wonder if I could take Bonine, my wonder anti-motion sickness pill, to counter this. Time to call my doctor! *UPDATE* Pseudomonas Dermatitis. aka....
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I’ve got what?

I’ve been prescribed Cipro. Folks. I have anthrax. Just kidding. My doctor ran a culture and found that what I have is not staph, but some other bacteria that is supposedly more resistant to the other 2 antibiotics I’ve been on this past week. Although, I seem to have healed well so far, she wants to make sure the damn thing is dead. And such a great patient I am, when she left me a message and told me what the bug was, I wrote it down on a Post-it with some other things on it. And later, I tossed...
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Staph-a-licious

Funny how LA Times had the whole article about staph infection on Sunday. So now you can read on what I had. LA Times: Infection Is Growing in Scope, Resistance Yes. HAD. I’m done with it. Everything minimizes into flatten, dark spots. Starting to wonder if they’d stay there as scars though....
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Invisibility

Last Friday, Stargate SG-1 episode was about the crew getting trapped in another dimension and therefore is invisible to other people. The crew can see and hear everyone, but no one could see them. That’s how I’ve felt over the weekend. And I believe I am still invisible so far this morning. Where’s a hole you want to craw in when you need one? Not that anyone would notice me gone, but at least I don’t have to sit there and watch the world goes by....
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Method to my madness

I woke up at 5 a.m. this morning. Apparently jetlag still has a hold on me. So I got up, watched the news for half and hour, then put Yoga Shakti in DVD player. Yes people. I, the sleep-inner, was doing yoga at 5:30 a.m. And I feel GREAT. I wonder if I can actually keep that schedule. Wouldn’t that be nice?...
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Half way in her shoes

The 2 antibiotics I’m taking are making me sick to my stomach. I have to constantly fight the feeling of throwing up. It seems the more I eat the better I feel but at some point even eating doesn’t help. Like now. I guess I can somehow relate to mom’s nausea after chemo. Just a fraction of how she felt. No wonder she doesn’t want to eat. On the other hand, it seems I have to keep eating to keep the stomach from churning. But at this moment, I’m stuffed…yet the churning continues. BTW – My best friend JC is...
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