cellulitis Archives - Living with Scleroderma https://livingwithscleroderma.com/tag/cellulitis/ Reflections on the Messy Complexity of Chronicity Mon, 10 Mar 2025 17:01:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 31053421 Delayed Reaction https://livingwithscleroderma.com/delayed-reaction/ https://livingwithscleroderma.com/delayed-reaction/#comments Tue, 11 Mar 2025 12:00:46 +0000 https://livingwithscleroderma.com/?p=10361

A week ago Friday, I checked an item off my health care to-do list when I got my pneumonia vaccination. For older adults, mine was Pfizer’s Prevnar 20, which stands for Pneumococcal 20-valent conjugate vaccine, in case you’re wondering. Basically, it covers a slew of bacterial strains, and as of current practice standards, I won’t […]

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]]> https://livingwithscleroderma.com/delayed-reaction/feed/ 4 10361 Theory of Relativity https://livingwithscleroderma.com/theory-of-relativity/ https://livingwithscleroderma.com/theory-of-relativity/#comments Tue, 11 Aug 2015 12:00:04 +0000 http://www.livingwithscleroderma.com/?p=3445 Just over two weeks ago, we were in Ireland. How can that be? I feel as if a month has passed, already. It’s so hard to hold onto that transformative sense of being elsewhere, once you’ve re-immersed in your everyday life. We have pictures and stories of our travels, and we’ve been sharing with friends […]

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]]> https://livingwithscleroderma.com/theory-of-relativity/feed/ 2 3445 A Shot in the Arm https://livingwithscleroderma.com/a-shot-in-the-arm/ https://livingwithscleroderma.com/a-shot-in-the-arm/#comments Tue, 06 Nov 2012 13:00:57 +0000 http://www.livingwithscleroderma.com/?p=1037 There are some advantages to seeing your doctor often. Mainly, you get to know each other as real people. And you get to know the support staff—receptionists, nurses, aides—as real people, too. This helps. A lot. Last week, I had one of my quarterly visits to my rheumatologist at Boston Medical. It was an 11 […]

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]]> https://livingwithscleroderma.com/a-shot-in-the-arm/feed/ 2 1037 Waiting for Sandy https://livingwithscleroderma.com/waiting-for-sandy/ https://livingwithscleroderma.com/waiting-for-sandy/#comments Tue, 30 Oct 2012 12:00:12 +0000 http://www.livingwithscleroderma.com/?p=1012 Rain drips off the ridge of the bay window outside my home office. Leaves tremble and branches sway. One long, thin lilac branch waves back and forth like a pointing finger. The sky is the color of soaked cotton balls. I can hear no birds, only the patter and plop of rain drops falling off […]

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]]> https://livingwithscleroderma.com/waiting-for-sandy/feed/ 5 1012 The Cruelest Month https://livingwithscleroderma.com/the-cruelest-month/ https://livingwithscleroderma.com/the-cruelest-month/#comments Tue, 13 Mar 2012 12:00:59 +0000 http://www.livingwithscleroderma.com/?p=309 April is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain. —T.S. Eliot, The Wasteland My April started early this season, by a few weeks. With warming weather and spring’s promise have come ulcers and more ulcers—an inexplicable but oft observed trend in medical […]

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