So, a few of you have asked me what’s up with my rant outburst from this morning.

I’ve had a few issues this week and I am just fed up!

For those of you who follow me on Twitter, you know that I’ve been fighting a pretty nasty case of poison ivy. I have no clue where I got it from. I’ve gone back to the only spot where I thought I could have tangled with it and I can’t find any poison ivy there. It’s weird.

I first noticed a spot on the back of my arm a week ago Wednesday, by that Saturday, it was obviously poison ivy. I started using Caladryl, which did nothing… on someone elses recommendation, I started using Cortizone 10 and Benedryl. A week after I noticed the first spot, I had what had to be the grossest case of Poison Ivy ever. The oozing from the back of my arm was so bad, it was dripping. I actually had to cover it up with bandages just to keep from making myself (and others) sick. I soaked through three arm patches and a self-adhesive arm wrap in 5 hours. Soaked through another set in another four hours. Pretty gross, eh?

Finally, this past Thursday, I finally went to the doctor. The doctor said that this was “a really bad case”, and not only did I have poison ivy, but there appeared to be an infection as well. I spent two hundred dollars (my entire year’s Health Insurance deductible) so that the nurse could give me two shots in the ass and I got a prescription for some steroids and some really long-named drug for the infection. Fortunately, the medication is working… there’s still a bit of an “itch” when the medicine starts to wear off. The Poison Ivy spots are clearing up and going away. It mostly looks like a bad sunburn now.
The infection (if that’s what it was) is going away too… the redness and swelling is going down. My guess is that this will finally be over in a few days.

I’ll detail the rest of my outburst in the morning. I’m tired. Which reminds me… I’m tired because some asshat who lives on the other side of the fence from my apartment complex has a fucking rooster. And this rooster spends the whole day crowing… it starts around 6 am and keeps going as long as there is sunlight. I’ve heard this thing crow as late as 4 in the afternoon! I thought they were only supposed to crow in the morning…. stupid thing. I just want to shoot it.

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