Spider bite

[fauxgypsy]

Hi y'all. I have been lurking lately. I have been busy in the garden and everytime I planted a flower I thought of Michelle. I am trying to find a "real job" with benefits so I have been getting my resume together and also getting my art website up. I have also had problems with phlebitis in my right arm that seems to be connected with, first tamoxifen, and then arimidex. Will be starting coumadin so that I can try to take arimidex again. The phlebitis gets in the ways of me typing.

Then Friday night a brown recluse bit me on my right shoulder. I killed the spider and then found the bite. I spent several hours Sat. at the emergency room because I had a systemic reaction. I developed a rash all over and my face was beet red and swelling. I had no idea how bad it could hurt. I am still taking bendryl and medrol, and it helps some. I am just hoping that it doesn't make the lymphedema worse. My shoulder feels like someone hit me with sledge hammer. I am also hoping that I avoid the flesh destroying aspects of this. The nurse came into the room right before I went home and told me my wrinkles in my forehead were coming back. Then she said that in this case it was a good thing. It helps to see the humor.

I am still NED as of my last test and so very thankful for it. When things start getting to me I remind myself of how much worse things are for so many of you and how y'all get through it all with lots of love and humor and strength and it helps me past the dark side of all of this. Thanks.

Leslie