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Well, H finally snapped and called my sons Pdoc and said that we will be at the next Pdoc appointment and if there is not a solution H and I will be leaving without my son. I was (very wisely) advised by a friend not to get guardianship or POA for my son because of the liability. He is oddly willing to go along with anything I suggest/do he just is abusive at home and a risk in the community. Anyway, 20min later H got a call that the Pdoc appointment will have additional people present including those who can put him in a hospital suited to his needs.

People, I'm worried. I have developed several raised bumps on my face, neck, and upper chest. They have appeared over the course of several days. Sometimes they are itchy, but not much. The first ones showed up on my face and although they looked like two huge hives, since there were only two, didn't itch at all, and they are the size of dimes, I assumed they were just really bad pimples. Then an even bigger bump appeared on my neck. This one hurts. At first I was worried that maybe I was in the early stages of shingles (apparently half of cases are people before the age of 60, which I didn't know). However, now I have developed additional bumps that are on both sides of my body. Shingles only affects one side or the other, according to Google.

C went to urgent care yesterday. The baby doctor, who didn't look much older than the medical student accompanying him, said he didn't know what they are. He hypothesized that they are bug bites. Maybe C didn't explain well enough that they have appeared gradually. Anyway, I don't think they are bug bites. They range in size from maybe 2mm to 3/4in and are a variety of shapes. Bug bites don't make sense to me.

He prescribed a steroid cream. My concern is that if this is something infectious, which is what we are worried about and C told him she was worried about, a steroid is the opposite of what will help.

I'm scared it might be MRSA. I went to visit a former coworker friend last Friday at the office. The office is a community mental health clinic. When I worked there, I remember there were occasionally clients who had MRSA. Additionally, since leaving that job, they have added primary care to the mental health services - so it seems even more likely that I may have been exposed. I texted the friend and asked her if she knew of anyone who had been in the office who had MRSA and she said no, but she was also really defensive. I wasn't worried about her personal office so much as the wider office and specifically, the doorknob at the front entrance.

Also, the mother works in a hospital. I've read that people can be MRSA carriers and not have symptoms themselves.

Maybe I'm being paranoid. I'm just worried. I put the steroid cream on one of the lesions but not the others. I guess I'll see how it does. If it improves, great. If it stays the same or gets worse, I will probably go to urgent care and demand they do a culture.

I would be doubtful it would be MERSA but bug bites don’t sound right either unless you have some kind of infestation but then you would see them... can you go to another doctor? Does your insurance have one of those things where you can call a nurse practitioner? Shingles usually happens on one side but the human body doesn’t like to be limited so it can happen over your whole body. Have you tried benedryl? The last time I broke out in weird hives an older Dr decided it could be Rocky Mountian Spotted Fever using a google search... so, Drs in general don’t really have my respect regardless of age. Mine ended up being a (very expensive after the ER, infectious disease specialist etc...) reaction to stress.

Susannah sounds like flea bites to me. No color, just a raised bump, more or less in one area? Thats been my experience. Dr took a biopsy.

I think MRSA presents differently. I had a heat reaction that sounds similar. It was everywhere and all strange and bumpy.

I slept all of 3 hours last night, but did manage to finish and turn in my last assignment for my first grad class. The class ends tonight and then I have a 2 week break until the next class starts. I see T in a few hours. I keep saying I want to talk about stuff and he says we'll keep talking about it. But then I get in there and have shut down and talked about other things.

susannah i hope you get to the bottom of whatever it is soon so you can start feeling better. when i had shingles (I was still 56 at the time) in late april/may it was sooooo very painful. they were little red bumps in clusters around the right side of my torso. I know they say they're only on one side, but i'm a firm believer in our bodies don't always follow the textbooks. at the hospital the night I went to the ER they told me that most of the pain i was feeling was probably from the shingles, and less of it from my appendix thing. (Not sure I believe them, but... there it is.) whatever it is, feel better soon.

I hope you can figure it out, Susannah. My skin is really sensitive and reactive, and I often have various bumps and rashes appearing, sometimes to be gone an hour later. Others last, and I've had to use eczema cream for those. Or taken an allergy med, like Benadryl or Zyrtec. Is it possible they're some sort of allergic reaction? You could try taking an oral allergy med to see if that helps. And, possible gross warning, do they have white dots in the middle like pimples can get sometimes? If so, they could be staph (not necessarily MRSA)--I ended up with that on my leg a few years ago and had to take antibiotics. Those were rather painful though. I'd get another opinion if they don't go away or start getting better in next day or so. Doesn't sound like shingles though (I thought that was what was going on when I had staph, but it wasn't the right pattern).

Hugs, I hope everything works out for you and they can find a place for your son to go so that he's not threatening you anymore. Glad the pdoc seems to be on board. When is the next appointment?

I didn’t see T Monday because he is doing yet another CEU thing. So far I have done pretty well with this skipped session but it is starting to get to me. This time it is because I am REALLY wanting to process something with him and think I will be able to ask to do that in session. I also know he always comes back from these training things on a kind of high and usually is at his best. I think this is the first time I have really wanted to bring something to therapy to work on. I always kinda showed up saying I have PTSD and then let the therapist guide everything from there. I want to sit in the corner but he did share that the thought of me sitting curled up in the corner upset him.

I just went over the proposed edits for my second story. It was virtually all "remove this comma" and "consider a comma here." I didn't agree with most of them, but said fine, except for the two suggested using the comma for "and" that made the sentence nonsense.

ETA: Okay, Couch poll: do you use a comma before a conjunction connecting two independent clauses? For instance, “I saw a Martian, but he ran away from me” or “I saw a Martian but he ran away from me”?

I have 3 of my 7 poem edits done for my final portfolio. Working on #4 now... heading out of town tomorrow morning for a long weekend up north and will be working on my 'poetic statement' paper from up there. It's all due Tuesday, the day after we get back home!

I am not a grammar expert but the first sentence reads better than the second. This my uneducated opinion

My ex has a girlfriend and I like her. On first seeing her I heard Deliverance banjos but she is quite nice and i would probably get in a canoe with her.

I love commas, but sometimes I use them and sometimes I don't.



I often read the sentence out loud and comma where I pause. Or just sprinkle them in liberally and then take them out later, kind of like planting too many carrots and thinning the row.

We were supposed to go on a family camping trip but the campground is temporarily closed. We may try another campground tomorrow, but I'm considering just chucking the whole idea and cleaning the house instead.

The soon-to-be ex is suddenly acting weird. I've been on edge all afternoon. Not sure whether I should ask, Hey, what's going on? or just not poke the bear.

AND, to top it all off, I am suddenly noticing my commas.

That is my uneducated opinion as well.

This causes me physical pain.

T and I were able to spend most of my session tonight talking about the hospital. We agreed it is a good idea for me to go in. He's going to call and talk to 2 places he likes tonight or in the morning, and then tomorrow when I see him we're going to make a plan. I am scared out of my mind. The last time I was in a psych hospital was 3 years ago. I have all these fears like them telling me I'm being manipulative not hearing anything I'm saying. What if they think I'm overreacting to all of what's going on. T thinks I shouldn't tell H until I'm about to go, because of his reaction. He's not going to be happy with me at all. I'm already telling myself that maybe this is a bad decision and I can keep toughing it out by myself. I feel stupid for agreeing to this voluntarily. I don't even know how that works out here to voluntarily admit yourself. Will they see my SH and change it to involuntarily? I hate the unknowns. It feels safer to avoid it altogether.