“When someone has the yeast infection on their skin, the skin often bleaches temporarily.”

Listening to an audiobook on grief, she balks: “Who unravels this neatly? ... I’ve been more unraveled by a yeast infection.”

I once spent 16 hours in pantyhose watching guys play basketball for the HBO show “Winning Time” and received $267 and a yeast infection.

And since late 2021, she said, she had been billed $32 for each of three email threads, seeking treatments for psoriasis, eczema and a yeast infection from providers at Novant Health in Charlotte, N.C.

While relatively harmless to those in good health, the yeast infection can be deadly to seriously ill hospital patients, residents of long-term care facilities and others with weakened immune systems.