infections Archives - Living with Scleroderma https://livingwithscleroderma.com/tag/infections/ Reflections on the Messy Complexity of Chronicity Mon, 31 Mar 2025 19:30:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 31053421 Adventures with Antibiotics https://livingwithscleroderma.com/adventures-with-antibiotics/ https://livingwithscleroderma.com/adventures-with-antibiotics/#respond Tue, 01 Apr 2025 12:00:58 +0000 https://livingwithscleroderma.com/?p=10391

Now that my blood pressure seems to be, thankfully, calming down, the next frontier is healing the infection in my left ring finger. As I’ve written recently, this has been going on for a couple of months, now. Two multi-week courses of Minocyline perhaps helped, but not enough to really clear the infection. So, last […]

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It’s 30 degrees F here today, but the real feel is about 19. It snowed over the weekend, just over four inches of fluffy white stuff, very pretty for a day and now shrinking into icy clumps. It’s too cold for me to take a walk, and the streets are patched with ice. Ugh. I […]

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]]> https://livingwithscleroderma.com/cooped-up/feed/ 4 10319 Mouse Wars II: The Empire Strikes Back https://livingwithscleroderma.com/mouse-wars-ii-the-empire-strikes-back/ https://livingwithscleroderma.com/mouse-wars-ii-the-empire-strikes-back/#respond Tue, 23 Feb 2016 13:00:04 +0000 http://www.livingwithscleroderma.com/?p=3741 It’s been a month since we first confronted a mice invasion in our home—during a bright full moon. Well, the moon is full again, and the problem we thought we’d solved weeks ago turns out to be a lot more intransigent than I had hoped. I hate the idea of killing mice. It’s not in […]

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]]> https://livingwithscleroderma.com/mouse-wars-ii-the-empire-strikes-back/feed/ 0 3741 Time to Stop Typing https://livingwithscleroderma.com/time-to-stop-typing/ https://livingwithscleroderma.com/time-to-stop-typing/#respond Tue, 02 Dec 2014 13:00:06 +0000 http://www.livingwithscleroderma.com/?p=2982 I’ve been having trouble sleeping the past few nights. My finger ulcer keeps waking me up. Usually when this happens, I have an infection. But that’s not the case this time. The skin is just too raw on the tip of my right ring finger, but I need to type and do other tasks, and […]

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]]> https://livingwithscleroderma.com/time-to-stop-typing/feed/ 0 2982 Clean Hands, Warm Heart https://livingwithscleroderma.com/clean-hands-warm-heart/ https://livingwithscleroderma.com/clean-hands-warm-heart/#respond Tue, 21 Oct 2014 12:00:54 +0000 http://www.livingwithscleroderma.com/?p=2899 Somewhere I once read that Donald Trump’s aides carry alcohol wipes for him, so he can clean his hands after every handshake. I don’t know if it’s true, but he has a reputation as a germophobe, so I wouldn’t put it past him. Much as I don’t want to have anything in common with The […]

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]]> https://livingwithscleroderma.com/clean-hands-warm-heart/feed/ 0 2899 The Waiting Game https://livingwithscleroderma.com/the-waiting-game/ https://livingwithscleroderma.com/the-waiting-game/#respond Tue, 25 Sep 2012 12:00:47 +0000 http://www.livingwithscleroderma.com/?p=889 I’m late for my doctor’s appointment. Per usual, I tried to finish just one more thing before I left the house. Then I hit road construction on the main thoroughfare between home and the medical center. By the time I have parked and found the right office inside the cavernous hospital, it’s a good 15 […]

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