I’ve heard that about Neosporin too…my mom had a severe reaction to the stuff after an ear piercing (as in, skin ulcerations), and was told that Polysporin was a much less harsh (but still effective) choice. She saved a paper or article about Neosporin that she found; I’ll try to dig it up.
This is a great protocol and one more people should use, especially the tea tree oil.
The only problem is, if you cat has the bacteria Bartonella henselae which causes cat scratch disease, cleaning and disinfecting the wound won’t keep you from getting it. You can even contract it if you cat licks you and you have a cut or other open sore.
My doctor told me that pouring Peroxide didn’t do a blame thing. I did that as soon as I got home and washed the punctures with hot soapy water. Would’ve been better to pour bleach on them. I’m sorry, but that never occured to me. Shocking.
Yesterday I learned you could catch cat scratch fever from tick bites. My coworker got it (and Lyme disease) from a tick.
ETA: I’m glad my cats are indoors only. If I haven’t gotten it by now, they probably don’t have it to pass on. That or I’ve had so many low-grade exposures that I may have built up an immunity.
For anyone who remembers or was wondering, my dad is actually getting better. My mom thinks the doctors overreacted when they saw he has a heart ejecta rate of 20% and decided he isn’t long for this world. Thing is, that’s where it’s been for the last 3 years, since he had a massive c.diff infection (whole other long story).
He can eat without aspirating as long as the food is soft or cut really small. And yesterday, his physical therapist walked him into the bathroom under his own power (okay, with a walker and a gait belt, but that’s where he was before this episode) so he could use the facilities.
Ninety-one years old. A long, long list of medical conditions. And he’s already improved to the point that he’s close to where he was before he went into the emergency room just over 2 weeks ago. My dad so tough, they drop the big one, be him and the cockroaches. 
Well, that’s good news!
Slept like shiiiiit and now I have to go drive a snowplow for 12 hours. Fuck.
That is all.
So pissed off. Went to urgent care two days in a row with a bad sore throat and cough. On the second visit, they tested me for flu and I was actually positive for influenza A (what specific strain I don’t know). I did get my flu shot back in September and have been getting a yearly flu shot since I was in my early 20s, a long time ago now. For some reason, even though the limitations of flu shot production cause the effectiveness from year to year to be somewhat low, I haven’t really gotten the flu (just colds) as far as I know for YEARS, so I figured getting the flu shot was helping me. I’m still going to keep getting the shot in future. BUT I feel a little betrayed! Dammit dammit dammit.
Best news I’ve had in quite some time, yes.
My December hospital stay went great - I have the free style libre - a sensor you slam into the back of your arm and calibrate, it lasts for 9 days then you change it out. I left my read unit on the rolling table and they got taught how to take a reading, so I never had the dreaded finger stick [hand neuropathy, a finger stick feels like you jammed a sword in covered with acid] and never got woken up from a nap for a glucose reading
Food there wasn’t as good as at Yale-New Haven, but palatable even though I didn’t eat for the first 3 days, and never finished more than half of any given meal for the last 5 days.
Went to the local big plumbing supply place two weeks ago and ordered some new towel racks for our bathroom remodel. Called after a week and were told they’d been shipped. Called two days ago and were put on terminal hold. Called today and were told that they’ve changed over their computer system and are trying to reconcile the accounts.
Really? You’re going with the old computer switch-over glitches story? That barely worked 20 years ago, let alone now. And if it’s true, you should be suing your installer. Is this the story you’re giving your contractor customers who have deadlines and penalties to deal with?
I am negotiating with a child.
My offer: $490,000
His counter-offer? $490,500
I am not making this up,
Edit: You have no idea how tempted I am to come back at $490,257.43
Some pile of scrotumwart put a stinky-ass as IPA in my six-pack of porter and I didn’t notice. Instead of a glorious final bottle I got dimensionless piss-water. :mad:
I think your next offer should be $489,500. 
I recently ordered a few small things online from an area business that’s just a bit too far out of my way to get to anytime soon.
***And had the Paypal receipt show up in my Messenger folder in Facebook. ***
W the Everloving F. I’ve never used Paypal (or any other payment method for that matter) to pay for anything in Facebook, and I’ve never authorized Paypal to link to my Facebook account. And now somehow they were magically linked to each other.
I fixed that situation rightaway quick, but am seriously disturbed about how the hell that even happened. I’m not sure who to be more pissed off at - Facebook or Paypal.
I agree. There’s a certain point where you limit the bullshit by backing off the numbers.
Fuck, I had paid off @ $42,000 of my wife’s debt after we got married (she lied and said she was @ $1,200 in debt). When we went into divorce only a year later, I initially offered to settle for $10k to just go away. She refused, she lied, she fought, she refused to negotiate. Six months later I settled for $27,500. Because I could fucking prove the debt and her attorney knew it. Because she was a fucking idiot who wanted me to roll over and die for her.
If you made your best offer and you get a petty counter like this, your best bet is to reduce your best offer by the petty amount and make it clear that this is your final, take it or leave it counter offer and you will walk away if they don’t accept it.
And if the buffoon makes you walk away, count your blessings and move on, because if you don’t, you’re going to get hit with all manner of bullshit before the end of it, such as (assuming you’re buying a house), fixtures and appliances removed and unrepaired damage.
Not in the same league, but I had a similar experience with a “best offer” negotiation on ebay a while back. The seller and I haggled back and forth for a bit and then they came back with my last offer plus 25 cents. 25 cents! That pissed me off so I declined. I kept watching the item and they never did sell it. Dumbass.
Here is the Neosporin article I mentioned upthread…apparently neomycin has quite a reputation for causing allergic reactions.
Walgreens - fuck you for filling a “prescription” of 10 Colace for $11 instead of sending my sister out to the aisles to buy a me bottle of 100 for $5. Greedy bastards.
(That is partially the surgeon’s fault for writing a script instead of just putting “take some Colace for 10 days” on the post op instruction sheet.)
My best beloved cat has a mass in his abdomen, and is not going to be with me much longer. A month if I’m lucky, I’d guess. He’s 16, and I am his person. He’s happy enough now thanks to prednisolone, but he isn’t eating a whole lot and so looks like a furry skeleton. He’s getting like 15 tiny meals a day because I think the mass makes him feel full.
I am praying to the gods of small creatures that they help him just not wake up one day, because I so very much do not want to do that final vet visit with him. I’ve had many, many animals leave the world while in my care so euthanasia is nothing new to me. Just … this one is going to be extra hard to do even though it’s the best thing I can ever do for him.
I’m not ready for this. Goddamned furry little heartbreakers 