{"id":12234,"date":"2013-03-06T11:45:47","date_gmt":"2013-03-06T18:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=12234"},"modified":"2013-03-06T12:16:39","modified_gmt":"2013-03-06T19:16:39","slug":"wednesday-bag-o-cefazolin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=12234","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday Bag o’ Cefazolin"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"3-6-13_1a\"<\/a>For a change, this installment’s bag photo is as literal as it gets: it’s me wearing my bag o’ Cefazolin (click on the image to see it full-size on Flickr). My bug-eyed stare indicates my continuing state of shock.<\/p>\n

Before anyone else asks, I don’t yet know the specific bacterial organism I’m fighting off. Should find out tomorrow when I see the infectious diseases doctor. But I’m pretty sure it’s not anything life-threatening like, oh, say, MRSA. Here’s why:<\/p>\n

After my morning antibiotic fluid bag replacement yesterday I went to my scheduled PT appointment. They didn’t like the fact that I was being treated for an infection and asked me to reschedule and come back when the treatment is over. I was, of course, pretty upset (though I kept it to myself), discouraged and disheartened. MRSA Mary. Branded by a bag.<\/p>\n

I went home in a state of mope. Last night Donna came home and I started to feel better immediately. This morning when I went in for a new bag I told them what had happened. They wrote me a note saying it was okay for me to go to PT. I went back to the PT place and rescheduled my missed appointment, and now I’m back on track. That’s why I don’t think things are all that dire. If they had refused to give me a permission slip … or if any of the techs had mentioned Hugo Chavez … I probably would have asked them to euthanize me on the spot.<\/p>\n

Speaking of Hugo Chavez, who died yesterday of what was probably a MRSA infection<\/a> contracted in the Cuban hospital where he was being treated for cancer, did you know he had a parrot named Sim\u00f3n Bol\u00edvar? And that they wore matching red berets? Suddenly I feel a little better about that problematic man.<\/p>\n

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Sim\u00f3n Bol\u00edvar & Hugo Chavez<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

So there’s that, too: the fact that if what I have is MRSA, I would have joined the choir invisible by now. And my little parrot too.<\/p>\n

Walked the dog this morning. Without the cane. Shall I take a bow?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For a change, this installment’s bag photo is as literal as it gets: it’s me wearing my bag o’ Cefazolin (click on the image to see it full-size on Flickr). My bug-eyed stare indicates my continuing state of shock. Before anyone else asks, I don’t yet know the specific bacterial organism I’m fighting off. Should […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,10,2],"tags":[1149,1148],"class_list":["post-12234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-critters","category-current-events","category-personal","tag-antibiotics","tag-hugo-chavez"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12234"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12246,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12234\/revisions\/12246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}