{"id":29866,"date":"2012-07-29T10:35:21","date_gmt":"2012-07-29T14:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asweetlife.org\/?p=28629"},"modified":"2015-12-27T15:46:36","modified_gmt":"2015-12-27T20:46:36","slug":"oh-my-itchy-infusion-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/?p=29866","title":{"rendered":"Oh, My Itchy Infusion Site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I scratch it and scratch it, but it continues to itch.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It\u2019s hot and humid and my infusion site is driving me absolutely crazy. It itches me most of the time, especially after I exercise. \u00a0When I\u2019m running I don\u2019t feel it, but when I get home it starts to itch intensely. I find myself standing in the shower scratching around my infusion site. \u00a0I scratch while I get dressed, too. I thought that changing the site more often would help, but it doesn\u2019t really. The old site, exposed, continues to itch (and I scratch it) and the new site seems to quickly follow.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Yesterday I spent a few hours working in our building\u2019s garden \u2013 weeding and cleaning. It was hot and I was sweating. I was also covered in dust. My infusion site was itching me like crazy, but my hands were so dirty I could not get near it. When I was done working in the garden I went upstairs, cleaned up, and immediately started to scratch. I couldn\u2019t stop scratching around the set.\u00a0 It reminded me a bit of when I was twelve and had a cast on my arm. The only difference is that then I could use a ruler or my grandmother\u2019s knitting needles to scratch my arm.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The itchy part of the infusion site is unreachable and all I can do is scratch around it. I reach around with my hand and scratch two sides of the site with my fingers spread so the set is in between them.\u00a0 That\u2019s the best I can do.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I\u2019m sure I\u2019m not alone here, but knowing others are suffering does not make it much better.\u00a0 I don\u2019t think there is much I can do about it, but it makes me feel a little better to share my frustration.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":129,"featured_media":53098,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1501],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.9 (Yoast SEO v22.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Oh, My Itchy Infusion Site<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"It\u2019s hot and humid and my infusion site is driving me absolutely crazy. 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