Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Happy Halloween from the waiting room

Today I woke up with a diamond shaped rash on the back of my head.  I called the oncology department here in Storm Lake and a nurse from the Sioux City oncology department called me back.  She seemed to insist that if my rash was itchy that it was most likely shingles...WHAT!?  Maybe it is a rash from the stitching in my wig?  No, the nurse insisted that I should go to see my family doctor because I CAN NOT see an oncology doctor and possibly expose all the other cancer patients to shingles.  You bet, I will go sit in the waiting room of the doctor's office with all the hacking sniffling people and expose myself to that mess.

I indeed went to the doctor, even the receptionist at the front reception was sick.  Right away the nurse could tell it wasn't shingles.  She said that a shingles rash doesn't cross the body.  HMMM nurse in Sioux City, I don't think you asked me enough questions.  On the bright side, I now have a steroid cream for my rash caused by the stitching in the back of my wig.  I hope that I don't get sick from sitting in the germ free waiting room.  I also need to figure out what to do about the back of my wig.

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