{"id":3420,"date":"2015-11-07T19:51:15","date_gmt":"2015-11-07T19:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/?p=3420"},"modified":"2015-11-07T20:14:25","modified_gmt":"2015-11-07T20:14:25","slug":"of-boils-and-extra-orifices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/2015\/11\/07\/of-boils-and-extra-orifices\/","title":{"rendered":"Of boils and extra orifices"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I’ve never had a boil that didn’t self resolve before within a week or two and never any that got bigger than maybe 1\/3rd of an inch.\u00a0 And of those maybe half a dozen in a lifetime.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 This monster…\u00a0 Got to be about an inch, like having an extra testicle embedded under my skin at the crease at the top of my right leg.\u00a0 Sore and painful.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Monday they cut it open and drained it and packed it with guaze.\u00a0 Wednesday they repacked it.\u00a0 Friday they repacked it again.\u00a0 Now I’ve got an extra orifice packed with cotton.
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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Wednesday repacking, the doctor didn’t use any analgesic so it felt like a wasp sting while they were working on it.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Friday they were good enough to shoot some numbing agent, lidocaine I think, into it before they started manipulating it so not painful this time.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 After the Wednesday repacking, I bled through the guaze in two hours.\u00a0 After Fridays hardly any blood at all even over night.\u00a0 Hopefully that means it’s really starting to heal finally and Monday they won’t have to repack again.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The antibiotics they’ve had me on, 100mg Doxycycline Hyclate twice a day, have upset my whole digestive system.\u00a0 Fortunately, last pill tonight and I’ll be done with those.\u00a0 I bought some yogurt in hopes of helping my gut bacteria recover faster.\u00a0 I’ve read that some people have had diarrhea for up to two months afterwards.\u00a0 I’d rather not.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 All told this has been about a $600 boil.\u00a0 Maybe it’s just me but this seems like a ridiculous amount of money for a boil.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The little problems in life like this, the ones that can’t be solved except by just going through the process, take the focus off the bigger problems, but then there may be a lesson there in that going through the process is pretty much how the bigger ones need to be addressed as well.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I look it as both a mental and spiritual exercise.\u00a0 Mental in as much as the process for little problems is the same as for big so it’s a bit of mental training.\u00a0 I think the most difficult part mentally is the sheer boredom of it all.\u00a0 It takes mental energy away from much more interesting things.\u00a0 And spiritual because if you can learn to trust God with the little things it makes it easier to trust God with the big things, like death and dying, and the loss of loved ones, that are inevitable.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I’ve never had a boil that didn’t self resolve before within a week or two and never any that got bigger than maybe 1\/3rd of an inch.\u00a0 And of those maybe half a dozen in a lifetime. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 This … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","wpautop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}