{"id":64083,"date":"2018-10-01T05:57:46","date_gmt":"2018-10-01T11:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=64083"},"modified":"2018-10-01T06:34:24","modified_gmt":"2018-10-01T12:34:24","slug":"a-painful-bump-in-the-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/01\/a-painful-bump-in-the-road\/","title":{"rendered":"A Painful Bump In The Road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry folks, there won&#8217;t be any photos posted on Feathered Photography today. But I do have a pretty good excuse.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday I spent most of the day in the ER &#8211; two\u00a0visits if you can imagine. The eventual (and I do mean <em>eventual<\/em>) diagnosis was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mayoclinic.org\/diseases-conditions\/epididymitis\/symptoms-causes\/syc-20363853\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">epididymitis<\/a>. I&#8217;ll leave out most of the unpleasant details but suffice\u00a0it to say that the condition is very painful, uncomfortable and disconcerting. And it&#8217;s difficult to treat. The first time I left the hospital I had my diagnosis and an antibiotic prescription in hand but after I filled it I read the Medication Guide that the pharmacy provided\u00a0and learned that levoflaxacin\u00a0&#8220;should not be used in patients who have a\u00a0history of a nerve problem called peripheral neuropathy&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Well, guess what. I have a serious case of peripheral neuropathy and I had\u00a0relayed that information to ER staff. Twice. I&#8217;ll be damned if I was going to take a med that\u00a0could make it worse so that meant another trip to the ER to get it all straightened out. After two more hours the subscribing\u00a0physician eventually\u00a0apologized and gave me another prescription for a different antibiotic &#8211; cefdinir. On the way home I stopped at my pharmacy to fill it but alas,\u00a0the comedy of errors continued &#8211; it\u00a0was Sunday so the pharmacy had already closed at 4:00 pm.<\/p>\n<p>Last night I tried to work up some images for today&#8217;s post but it&#8217;s just too painful to sit for any length of time so I abandoned the effort. My choices were to not post anything at all or to\u00a0post\u00a0a brief explanation. In the end (bad pun intended) I figured my loyal readers deserved an explanation &#8211; thus the unusual\u00a0topic and lack of photos for today&#8217;s post (be very thankful for the lack of photos&#8230;).<\/p>\n<p>At 10\u00a0am this morning I should finally\u00a0be able to fill my second\u00a0prescription. I hope that stuff works well and\u00a0fast!<\/p>\n<p>Ron<\/p>\n<p><em>Notes:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>The source of\u00a0the infection was\u00a0probably a fairly\u00a0recent medical procedure where a urologist used a scope to inspect my urinary bladder.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>I&#8217;m sure all this is more than\u00a0some wanted to know on the subject so apologies to those who may be uncomfortable with this edition of Feathered Photography. I understand because I share the feeling, in spades.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry folks, there won&#8217;t be any photos posted on Feathered Photography today. But I do have a pretty good excuse.<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/01\/a-painful-bump-in-the-road\/\"><span>Continue reading<\/span><i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[334],"tags":[4228,4230,4231,4227,4229],"class_list":["post-64083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds","tag-antibiotic","tag-cefdinir","tag-emergemcy-room","tag-epididymitis","tag-levoflaxacin"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1zzJh-gFB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64083\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}