Cat Scratch Fever and Army Follies.

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So....

We are all moved out of our place. Our stuff is on its way to polk....where we have no house. And we cant leave yet, since the army fucked up every single piece of D's paperwork. He only got his orders a few days ago, and they completely lost his smith file. And its a 4 day weekend.

So theres that....luckily Cara has taken us in like the poor little hobos we are.

Which brings me to the next bit of "My Luck"....

Did you know Cat Scratch Fever is real? I didnt. My cupcake and dagger was done tuesday....wednesday Cara's cat jumped on me and rubbed its fur on my fresh tattoo. I wiped off the fur that stuck to my lotion and did a quick wash since I was gonna jump into the shower as soon as my clothes were dry.

Big. Effing. Mistake.

Yesterday I got up to swelling and extra tenderness and a ton of ink being pushed out by plasma.....and a big red area around the tattoo.....

So I figured I maybe got an infection from the cat and started using hot sea salt compresses, picked up some anti microbial wash etc. We were trying to move and stuff so I just sucked it up.

Till today. I spent all night tossing and turning trying to sleep but my arm hurt. I got up to a massive red area on my arm, severe swelling, fever, chills, and my cupcake looked fucking moldy. And the pain.......oh my god the pain. I could feel a throbbing dull ache from above my elbow to my fingertips, the actual tattoo area itself felt like there was a hot iron pressed to it, followed by every now and again it feeling like there was a lit lighter under it.

So off we go to the emergency room, and of course being a four day, and the fourth of july weekend...it was packed with broken ankles, severe sunburns and head trauma. So I waited with D.....hoping like hell we'd have time to finish cleaning the apt and turn our keys in on time after.....and me kinda thinking that just cutting the motherfucker off and cauterizing it would hurt less...

Luckily once the nurse in triage saw it, things moved pretty quickly. The doc came in, asked what happened and he decided it was cat scratch fever(because of the fever and chills along with the swelling)....which doesnt require being scratched if the wound is open. Also one area looked like staph may have set in. So he prescribed the uber antibiotics, and also a good bit of vicodan I didnt even have to ask....he just prescribed it. lol.

Yeah, took the pills and went to the apt and finished cleaning. Once the vics kicked in I wasnt *as* sore, mostly I just stopped caring. So were here till tuesday at the earliest, wednesday or thursday at the latest.


Yup.....Thats my luck. Random weird issues and His luck is that every piece of his paperwork gets lost/jacked up.

Lol maybe Ill take a picture of my hawt arm. Oh and Im not expecting this tattoo to look good after this. Im pretty sure in 6 mos Ill have to have it fixed. Ive pushed out a good chunk o fink already.
 
Shit, sorry that happened. The whole "pushing out ink" thing is pretty intense, I didn't even know that could happen. Hopefully the touch up works out.

And yes, for the sake of my slightly morbid fascination, you should post pics.

Cats are fucking evil.
 
Lynny, at this point I'm convinced that someone has put a hex on you given the kind of luck you seem to have. I think it's time to sacrifice a goat or something.




You are so UNCARING!
 
Awh, it's not the cats fault. It was just wanting some loving from the hawt pretty girl and tragedy took place.

I hate that it happened. It sucks about the tat as well. V3N may be on to something. You need a good luck charm or something.
 
Im gonna get Cara or D to take a picture later. I just ate my second dose of vics so hopfully when I do my hot compress I wont pass out or spontaniously combust.

And V3n...Ive often wondered if I was a horrible person in a previous life. I do think of it this way though, before D deployed....we had a rash of shitty luck (the whole melted engine car fiasco) and while he was gone it wasnt so great either.....but he came home safe. Warrick got super sick, but he recovered. Gage is accident prone and has had 3 surgeries...Maybe we get shitty luck so keep us from even worse things?
 
LOL....in big letters accross the bottle of septra it says "will decrease the effectiveness of birth control"

Now the mirena isnt an oral contraceptive, but it DOES rely on hormones being released from it. So I spent like an hour trying to find out if it would affect it....then called the company. They havent done any studies on it. WTF??

So.....rubbers it is.
 
When I first read the title I thought you meant the kind of cat scratch where you have sex and get addicted... I thought you got cheated on (thus army follies) and was going to feel horrible for you! Granted I still hope you feel better, but I'm glad I was wrong! :happysad:
 
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