{"id":754,"date":"2022-12-13T07:40:58","date_gmt":"2022-12-13T12:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ethanlewis.org\/icarus\/?p=754"},"modified":"2022-12-13T07:40:58","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T12:40:58","slug":"fusion-update-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ethanlewis.org\/icarus\/2022\/12\/13\/fusion-update-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Fusion Update #2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethanlewis.org\/icarus\/2022\/12\/12\/fusion-update-1\/\">yesterday&#8217;s post<\/a> I referred to some post-surgical issues that were causing me trouble. It seems that I must have been allergic to some of the adhesives that were used on me because I have been suffering from a burning, painful, itchy rash all over my back and waist that has made the last few days very hard to take. Having said that, 90% at least of my total pain and discomfort are due to the rash, so if that can start to improve I think I will be feeling pretty good, which is what I am hoping for.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The operation was on Tuesday (7 days ago) and the rash didn&#8217;t show up as an issue until Saturday morning. My family doctor suggests Benadryl cream (we started that yesterday) and the surgeon&#8217;s physician&#8217;s assistant suggested hydrocortisone cream (we will pick some of that up today and try it later).\u00a0 But all in all, I will leave the last word to my boss, who said &#8220;if all you have to complain about is some tape and not the major surgery on your back, that&#8217;s probably a good thing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>My mother says that she has an adhesive allergy, and that my late father had one too&#8211;I think I might see about getting a medic alert thingy to let first responders know that I do, too. Here is a picture of the rash&#8211;again, if you are squeamish stop scrolling now:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ethanlewis.org\/icarus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/eml-rash-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Views: 697<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; In yesterday&#8217;s post I referred to some post-surgical issues that were causing me trouble. It seems that I must have been allergic to some of the adhesives that were used on me because I have been suffering from a burning, painful, itchy rash all over my back and waist that has made the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434,278],"tags":[436,438,437],"class_list":["post-754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-back-injury","category-back-surgery","tag-back","tag-spinal-fusion","tag-spine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ethanlewis.org\/icarus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ethanlewis.org\/icarus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ethanlewis.org\/icarus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ethanlewis.org\/icarus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ethanlewis.org\/icarus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=754"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.ethanlewis.org\/icarus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":756,"href":"http:\/\/www.ethanlewis.org\/icarus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754\/revisions\/756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ethanlewis.org\/icarus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ethanlewis.org\/icarus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ethanlewis.org\/icarus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}