Well that's a pain...

Never before have I seen one doctor ready to hit another.

I went to see my surgeon today, who of course knew about my rash but didn't know what the allergist doctor put me on (prednisone/steroid). When he heard, he rushed out of the office looking like he was going to hunt the other doctor down and beat her.

Turns out prednisone slows healing and keeps scar tissue from forming. Scar tissue is what you want to seal the whole 'hey I cut your stomach in half' thing.

So not only am I still itchy as hell (he took me off it and told me to get an over the counter allergy medicine), now I'm back to the beginning healing-wise.

I don't even get my baby food mush chicken today. 12 days of no food, and now I have to go to 19 days. Annoyingly, that will take me right before returning to work, so that's going to be an extra pain.

I sure do wish something about this process would go smoothly. And I really, really wish I could stop itching.