Well, I wasn't healed when I awoke... 'cause I never went to sleep.
Y'see, the pharmacist told me that one of the side effects of the steroids is insomnia. Well, it didn't really affect me Sunday, 'cause I took the pills then went right to bed.
However... today was a different story. I couldn't get to sleep at all, although I tried and tried and tried. Karen came home about 18:00 and I was still awake... I'd called in sick again about 14:00, wanting to give them plenty of time.
So I slept from 18:30 to probably 21:45. The itching has maybe abated slightly, or maybe that's just wishful thinking.
And speaking of thinking, I think that I may have gotten exposed when I was in Texas. I was playing with JDs' dogs and I had to retrieve their ball from behind the fence in some shrubbery... I didn't even look to see what kind of shrubbery it was, but I'll bet that it was the bad stuff that got me.
But, then, why the delayed reaction? That was on Monday, and it didn't show up until Friday and then it took a week before it got really bad. I do believe that some of what has popped up since then is systemic, though.
The cable is working again... I had them come out, since I found out that it wasn't just me. Tyler told me that the cable TV had gone out also, and the repair guy told me that you have to re-boot the modem while the cable is detached, then attach the cable again, for it to work properly. He also put new ends on all of the cables and he told me that the original installer should have done that.
He didn't mention charging me for the call, though... but I might see it on my next bill.
07:34...
And I really really hope that I can go to sleep... it's the only way that I can not think about scratching.
Work tonight, I hope.
Long night, and I accomplished nothing but scratching. The first lesions that I got now look like healing burns... nice, smoothe new pink skin. The newer ones are still welts, and they still itch a lot. But I'm going to slather them with gunk and go to bed and they will fade away by the time I wake up.