Well the last couple of weeks have really hammered me, work has continued to be consuming a lot of time, my insurance keeps telling me the electrolysis for the surgical area is covered but they keep on failing to reimburse me, always one or another screwup on their end so I've had to put time into chasing that.
And last but not least, I turned up a rash on my inner thigh, not far from the surgical site, I'd guessed it to be fungal (never had that there before but what skin problems i have had have been athlete's foot which responded well to antifungals. By last week I was beginning to worry and had also begun to think it was contact dermatitis. I talked to my surgeon and she said it needs to get fixed because if it was fungal we would cancel tge procedure, YIKES :-(.
So I was able to see a doc locally that evening, she called it as indeed dermatitis (both on appearance and a quick histology), prescribed an antiinflammatory steroidal cream and got me a dermatology consult for yesterday. The dermatologist agrees (also did histology); the antiinflammatory is working but she's prescribed a milder one and so I think I'm in the clear, all systems still go for proceeding.
And my gf has been great, she's a bit prone to worrying but is 100% on board and supportive. And we're both looking forward to the trip, of course with awareness that I'll be limited in stamina.
So still stressful and things are all ok.
