A Month Long Cold and Sore Feet

I finally feel like I'm over my cold. Even though all my blood work looked good, I was still running a low fever and pretty congested last week so Dr. A put me on 10 days of Augmentin (even though I don't think I was showing any signs of a bacterial infection). I think he was just buying time. Anyway, he said if I still felt sick after I was done with the antibiotics he wanted to do a CT scan of my sinuses. Luckily, I really am feeling better so no CT scan for now. I haven't taken my Methotrexate in 4 weeks.

Around the time my cold started, I noticed that my feet were hurting again. Dr. A said that sometimes a cold can cause aches like that (I disagree) so he wasn't too worried about it. The last time I saw him, he examined them and thinks I might have a stress fracture. My second metatarsal was really tender and Prednisone can make you susceptible to stress fractures, so I guess it is a possibility, but I don't really think so. It's not like I'm in excruciating pain. My right foot especially hurts mostly at the start of the day and then at the end of the day when I take off my shoes and walk barefoot. It doesn't hurt so much that I can't stand on it though. Anyway, he wants me to get an x-ray next week (even though I read that x-rays don't usually reveal stress fractures anyway). But I don't really have a better idea of what might be wrong, except maybe I need new shoes. :)

Nail Biter

I really have to stop biting my nails! Ughg. I had quit for several years, but then started again when I was sick and pregnant. However since I'm on the Cytoxin and my immune system is being suppressed, it seems like a really bad idea to keep sticking my dirty fingers in my mouth all day. Not to mention that if I bite a hangnail and make it bleed, then I have an open sore on my hand. If I keep my nails painted I won't bite them, but how in the hell do I find time to paint my nails? Right now I spend all day holding Amelia. If she sleeps, I try to sleep. If she is happily playing for a few minutes, I am trying to make up formula for the next day.

Linda and my dad offered to babysit for Amelia once she was on a bottle and I am thinking about taking them up on that offer pretty soon. It would be nice for Ross and I to have an evening alone. I wonder if we could go out to dinner and actually eat in a restaurant. I don't know how much I am supposed to stay out of public.

I don't know how much I should be in public or not because Dr. Awadh is not very clear. He says one thing and then clarifies in a completely different way. At our last visit I said, "Since I am going to be on Cytoxin, should I try to avoid public places?" He said, "Oh no. It's okay for you to go out." Ross asked, "Then she can go to the mall and the movies?" Dr. Awadh replied, "Oh, well... no, no.. She shouldn't go to the mall." Ross then persisted, "Then the movies are okay?" Dr. Awadh said, "No, probably not the movies either." Alrighty then. So??? Where can I go in public if not the mall or movies? I will maybe ask my WG Yahoo group.

As for symptoms, my sinuses were bothering me quite a bit today. I got really stuffy and did my sinus rinse in the middle of the day (and actually did it twice in a row) instead of in the evening like normal.

The ball of my right foot is hurting too. I have had this happen before and I really think it is just from wearing my Dansko shoes for weeks in a row. I have asked Ross to bring my tennis shoes so I can switch it up. Hopefully that will fix things.