It's such a pleasure to be rewarded for listening to your own body, and not giving into fear. This is not something I've been especially successful with in the past, the former or the latter. It's not something our society is good at, either.
But when my foot hurt and the internet told me I risked permanent early-onset arthritis by not treating that pain with antibiotics I’ll admit I was worried. It's easy to take a solution that's packaged, endorsed, marketed, and lauded by the ghost choir of google; it feels like the truth. It's rational truth that speaks a bit closer to the top of my head than the primal truth of my body.I've had infections before, I've seen them rise and fall and say goodbye, just like this one did. Today I can walk without wincing, and I didn't fuck up my stomach or give any money to a pharmaceutical company to do it.