TMI from a tired blogger:
The good part, I suppose, of looking up staphylococcus aureus (yowsers!) is that I’ve become even more obsessive about washing my hands. Rubbing my sleepy eyes after reading that article landed hard in the Thou Shalt Nots.
I went back to dermatology yesterday.  Then called the stoma nurse today: leaking bags waking me up in the middle of the night four times in one week on top of that still-there-staph aureus infection is kinda getting old.  Not to mention expensive–if I use too many in a month, I get to pay for the extras at about $30 retail a shot.
The stoma nurse pulled strings and has a different type of skin barrier being overnighted to me now as samples (bless her!) to try that hopefully won’t give way, and said the weeping skin won’t heal if the adhesive is being pulled off too often–keep it to every other day, no more.
The dermatologist says the skin needs an antibiotic gel applied twice a day in order to heal.
Uh, guys…
Just as I finished typing the above, the phone rang. It was a nurse from my husband’s employer, wanting to see how I’d been doing since February and could she help with anything?
So she is now going to confer with an infectious diseases specialist to see if she can get me any more information. While I’m sitting here marveling at the out-of-the-blueness and the timing of her call. Wow.
