I hope you are all doing better. Let me add my scary steroid experience. I was out in the sun and heat for 5 days. I got a bad rash everywhere the sunscreen was. Ok... Went to dr. She gave me a steriod shot and sent me (and my 7yo son) on my merry way. Within 20 minutes by the time I was on the Interstate, I went into anaphlactic shock from teh shot. I was able to get off at teh next exit, park, call 911 and get picked up by the ambulance safely (at least as safe as you can be when you have become a hive and tried to scratch all your skin off). Thank the Good Lord there was only minimal respitory reaction.
This is weird because while I've never taken steroids much in my life, I've NEVER had such a reaction (even the rash reaction to the heat / sunscreen) before I had my WLS surgery. No clue if it is related and my body is just different now than it was, or what.
But your post title caught my attention and hit a chord.