Thank You Doctor Obvious.....

So Kyle paid for me to go to the doctor this morning.  I'm sure he was annoyed with my constant digging at my skin in my sleep..... Well that and the fact he doesn't wanna be out with someone who totally looks like a junkie, as Brandon so politely put it.  I have Eczema.  Duh, I knew that doctor obvious...  Apparently as sick as I was a couple of weeks ago, with the sinus infection and walking pneumonia, one of the symptoms was probably a rash.  I didn't notice because my skin always looks like shit in the winter.  Also, being at all my friend's houses, my sister bringing her dog to my mom's house and all of those other interactions with animals (in which I'm allergic TO THEM ALL, even the thousand dollar anti-allergenic dog my sister has) really caused my Eczema to flair up.  Combine that with the fact I'm an itcher.  I'm constantly scratching.  I do it in my sleep, I do it all day long.  I can't help it.  I gave myself a nice infection doing it.  For the record, I'm a scab picker too.  You really wanted to know that. 

Treatment?  Curious, you were right.  Steroids.  3 pills every morning for the next 7 days.  I also have to take Tagament.  Not because I have heartburn, which is what it's for, but because it contains an antihistamine that's different from Benedryl and Zyrtec.   No more Zyrtec, on to Claritin, which is ok with me because Zyrtec puts me into a coma-like sleepy state for several hours after I take it.  He didn't prescribe me antibiotics for the infection because I'm going to be taking so much other stuff.  Hey doctor, thanks for that.  I'll have a hard enough time paying for all this other stuff.  Hopefully after the 7 days, it'll be mostly cleared up and if i can just maintain and not have it get this bad again, I should be good to go.  How much of winter is left?  Damn, too much..... At least I know in the spring it'll all go away.

On to other things.  Tara, April and I went to happy hour last night.  Fuck the snow, Tara wanted to drink.  She's dieting again, so she's not drinking every night, only on special occasions, like a snow blizzard or weekend.  She picked both of us up and we headed to the local watering hole.  There were 5 people in the whole place.  Nice.  Oh and it was 4pm.  Everything was cool until April asked what I was going to do about my whole "situation".  I cracked.  What I've written about the whole thing has been emotionally charged, but in reality, I've shown little to no emotion over the whole thing to anyone here.  It's just not me to let people see all that.  By 7pm, I was the blubbering drunk girl.  Good thing nobody was there.  We went to April's moms house and I sat with her mom while she hugged me and told me that everything will be ok.  I know that it will be.  I just needed to get it all out.  Tara finally dropped me off at the house at 8 and after checking in on Ev, I crawled into bed.  Kyle, having no idea what went on, immediately asked what was wrong.  I didn't want to talk about it.  He was ok with that.  I turned on some music to drown out my sniffles, curled up with him and fell asleep.

I didn't wake up again until it was time for him to go at 12:45.  He was getting paid to go out and help plow businesses in the middle of the night.  Before he left he made Ev a bottle and I didn't hear a peep out of the kid for the rest of the night.  I slept hard.  I slept like I haven't slept in over a year now.  When my alarm went off this morning it scared me.  I was in such a nice peaceful slumber.  I get the kids up and go back to bed until they're done with their showers.  Once they're done I drag my butt into the shower.  I just stand there in the hottest water possible (yeah, I know that's really bad for my skin...).  I may have fallen back asleep standing there, but I was rudely interrupted by someone pounding on the bathroom door and talking.  I can't hear what the hell the kid is saying.  I tell him to open the door.  As he's hit by a massive cloud of steam Gavin tells me school is canceled and thanks me for not checking before waking them up.  I say good, get Ev up, dress him and then you can go back to bed.

Once I finish my shower and get dressed i hear all sorts of commotion in the living room.  They're fighting over who's going to change Ev's diaper.  WTF?  I change it and run around the house doing all of the things I should have done last night had I not been at the bar.  Brandon goes back to bed.  Gavin tells me that since he showered and is having a good hair day he's not going back to bed.  What's wrong with that kid?  Kyle wanders in from his night of snow plowing just in time to start my car for me.  Not that it'll get warm or anything, but he does it anyway.  Thanks bunches babe.  I talk with him for a minute and it's time to head to the doctor.  I scoop up Ev and we're out the door.  I think about how much it sucks that me and the little guy have to go when yet again everyone else in the house gets to stay warm and sleep...... Or play Xbox and not ruin their hair.......