stitchwhich | (no subject)

I think I'm about to start an arguement with my oncologist... he won't win.

It's nothing really dire, it is just that on my shin I have Sporotrichosis - a skin infection one gets from roses, sphagnum moss, or haybales (Gee, wonder how I got it? Can we say "Pennsic" or any other SCA event featuring hay bales?) and it's ugly and doesn't just heal up on its own. (Hey If you are reading this and then decide to hit up Google to see what I'm talking about - mine doesn't look like that! It's bad, but not like those pictures on Google! Those are scary!) I've actually had it for quite a while and only last winter did the dermatologist firgure out how to treat it. Unfortunately for me, the treatment is very hard on the liver - as is the medicine I'm taking to fight my cancer - so I had to discontinue it once my cancer treatments started.

But that wasn't enough time to clear the infection, and this last Pennsic it became very, very bad. It's spreading from its little isolated couple-of-spots, and getting deeper. I actually have constant pain, now, at the infection site and that deep aching kind that indicates one's bone is involved. Not good. The literature about it says, "the infection (untreated) can spread to other parts of the body, including bones and joints and the central nervous system". So like it or not, I'm going to have to risk my liver for a little while.

Dang. Hopefully, it will only be for a little while.