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Man what the fuck my appointment was at 07:40 and here it is 08:11 and I'm still waiting for the doctor to see me
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Welp about 10 minutes after posting that I was already out the door.
I told the doctor about all the stuff I've been doing to combat this ringworm and showed her all the spots that have already healed but now there's new sores. Despite my best efforts it's still spreading. However, it's way more under control now than it was.
She said the bleach is one of the best things for it. Keep doing that. She was also surprised at how proactive I was at treating it, using vinegar in my laundry, trying to identify the source, even going so far as to shine my cat down with a UV flashlight.
She then said, "oh, I've got a black light. Hold on, let me go get it!"
She then brought back a thing like pic related, turned off the lights, and shined it on me.
From the way the spots (some spots weren't even sores yet) on my arms and legs shone, you'd think I was @nosleep just coming back from bukkakecon before classes started.
She thought it was really cool and said she wished she had a student with her so she could show them what it looks like.
Said said if it's this bad from me treating it for two weeks with bleach and antifungal cream she could only imagine how bad it was before. Especially with all the (temporary) scars of all the places that have already healed.
So she's going to give me an oral prescription to help me fight it from the inside because it's kinda all over my extremities.
I'll hopefully be able to get that filled today.
Anyway, that's the current update on me committing fungalcide.
Anyway, I'm back home now. She apologized for the wait. She got held up with other patients and it kind of caused a ripple effect. She's trying to catch up but she said at this rate she'll be lucky if she can get half of her lunch break today. Just one of those days...
TL; DR: Keep doing what I'm doing. Continue to add vinegar to my laundry, continue to use bleach, the antifungal cream is pretty much optional if I'm using bleach but it won't hurt anything, and now add in a mix of antifungal oral medication and it should be all cleared up in a week or two.
She said I literally did everything right, the best way I could. I went above and beyond and there was nothing she could think of that I could have done myself that would have been better. She said bleach is one of the best things to do and something most people don't think about and then vinegar in the laundry is something almost nobody thinks of.
She said it's always a pleasure talking to me because I'm the only patient she has that cannot only selfdiagnose correctly but also treat that diagnosis in the best way possible.
She said she wouldn't have even thought of the blacklight unless I mentioned it.
She asked if I ever thought about going to med school and I told her that wasn't something I wanted to do. Medicine only really interests me at a surface level but my real passion is computers.
Honestly, I could probably become something like a medic or EMT with a little hands on training. EMT doesn't really work that way tho, one arm could cost someone there life, and that's really not something I want to do. I'm fine with just having first aid++ knowledge and being able to jump into action if needed plus knowledge and being like a 1920s doctor except actually correctly diagnosing then and treating them with actual medicine instead of mercury and bloodletting. Is there a word for that? Like a handyman for medicine and first aid?
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> Is there a word for that? Like a handyman for medicine and first aid?
Just go full witch doctor.
Also:
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@Beekeeper @DuchessOfMars @Elfie @FutaFanatic @LoliHat @SuperSnekFriend @alyx @demitasse @eternalclassic @graf @meowski @nosleep @p @roboneko @skylar @xue oh, also she said Cornbread is adorable and that he's really grown in the past month.
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@sjw @Elfie @nosleep @roboneko @xue @meowski @Beekeeper @DuchessOfMars @p @alyx @demitasse @SuperSnekFriend @eternalclassic @graf @FutaFanatic @LoliHat @skylar educate yourself on first aid and whatever you find interesting in that field, you never know when it'll be important. Even though it was my job, I usually learned things not part of my job description, and above my competence level (usually about equipment we didn't use or techniques, but even diagnostic methods)
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@PhilSchedia @Elfie @nosleep @roboneko @xue @meowski @Beekeeper @DuchessOfMars @p @alyx @demitasse @SuperSnekFriend @eternalclassic @graf @FutaFanatic @LoliHat @skylar @matrix Like the time I provided first aid to my next door neighbour after she got shot in the leg by her ex?
That was "fun." Called 911 as soon as it happened (watched it from my bathroom window) because in a lot of cases everyone assumes someone else already called emergency services and in reality emergency services never actually gets contacted.
First thing I did after he sped away was grab the first piece of clean fabric I could find that I could use to apply pressure and make a makeshift tourniquet if need be. It just so happened to be a shit of mine.
On a side note I still wear it regularly. Laundry detergent is one of the few things I'm not willing to buy store brand on. Tide all the fucking way! Well worth the money!
Anyway I assessed the wound. The bullet appeared to be lodged in her kneecap or either went through the knee cap and was lodged in her knee. I was betting on it being in the knee cap tho because all signed pointed to that. (I also turned out to be correct). There wasn't any apparent nerve damage and no signs if internal bleeding so I knew it probably didn't hit an artery. I applied pressure and asked her to hold it while I felt her pulse. Just to be more sure that there was no internal bleeding that the shock/adrenaline might be masking from her senses. I keep her calm, explained what I thought happened, but also explained why I was doing what I was doing. Also explained it was very unlikely there was internal bleeding but I couldn't know for sure and I just wanted to make sure she was alright until help arrived and that I'd take every step I could to make sure she got to the hospital safely.
The next day her brother (who I had never met or even seen before [maybe I saw him when they were loading her up into the ambulance?]) came by to thank me. Apparently she thought more highly of me than any of the EMTs or doctors/nurses at the ER because I not only seemed confident but explained everything I was doing, why, what the chances of a bad outdone were, etc. According to her, "he explained everything to me so I could understand it, he didn't try to sugar coat it, and he was as calm as a cucumber. I knew if worse came to worse I was gonna be alright." Apparently the same couldn't be said for EMT or ER techs, nurses, or doctors.
I guess I at least have that going for me :yui_shrug:
Also, her ex was caught 2 days later. He's still in prison. Has charges of assault with a deadly weapon, felon in possession of a firearm, and I think a few lesser charges. Those were the big two. .ubv⁸
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@sjw @Elfie @nosleep @roboneko @xue @meowski @Beekeeper @DuchessOfMars @p @alyx @matrix @demitasse @SuperSnekFriend @eternalclassic @graf @FutaFanatic @LoliHat @skylar you did everything correctly here, I've only got one little thing to add. Don't worry about internal bleeding if the wound is on the extremities. Only think about it if it's on the torso (anywhere), neck, or on the thigh. The thighs can hold enough blood inside them to make a person bleed out, but don't worry about it on the knees or lower leg or on the arms. Of course external bleeding is a thing even at these places.
But great job ?
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