Hello all,
I've been a member here now for about a year, maybe a bit longer and I've loved every minute even when new types of topics began to be included. I'm fascinated by the gooky-ness of our human body.
Except!!
I got a large pus pocket behind my ear, a bit hot to the touch and hard. The second day, the knot was larger and there was a center head that looked ready to erupt. It was that 'dream' type state we often say we wished, a good pus factory type pimple/boil and it was just as I saw many of them do online here. It exploded (making me nervous after the fact because the pus went everywhere on my face and I was a bit concerned that it went in my eye, down in my ear itself, or other equally disturbing places) and I was in my favorite little dream state.
Then!!
The next day, my neck was swollen, lymph nodes filled with pus, enough pressure again pushing up and I guess out as well, into the only places it could go as it grew, and I actually had partial airway blockage. It was a pimple gone wild, an abscess at this point, and it wasn't going to be an easy squeeze. Not this one. I happened to have a doctor visit scheduled for other tests, but mentioned the ear first. That was this morning. They stopped everything they had intended to do and had several personnel poke in and offer opinion on the now angry, hot, pulsing pus pocketbook behind my ear. Everyone wanted to hospitalize me.
Terror!!
The last time I was in a hospital it was also the last time I ever saw my mother. I was frantic. I'm sitting here, even now, worried like crazy that they're going to find out it's spread and taken over my brain or some other equally unfounded fears. Sometimes a little too much information makes us ruminate on all the data that's gone in to my mind from this site's wonderful examples of similar bumps. I didn't realize there was a dark side to them. I talked about the other options, and eventually convinced them to try 2 days on oral antibiotics, then return on Wednesday 04, 2009 and see what happens. I hope like H*** that things have tamed considerably by then.
Horse Pills!!
In case you've never had the delightful experience of extremely high dosings of antibiotics but with my kidney failure and current kidney disorder with the one that is still there, I'm an old antibiotic player. I know how the lesser oral meds affected me. When I saw the Megalopomed and instructions to take TWO twice a day, I was wondering how I could swallow one, much less two, and if they would agree with me or not. The alternative looms; iv antibiotics and at least one overnight stay at the local hospital.
Prayer!!
If you do, please keep me in mind. This was actually minor to us prior to our visit. There were so many other questions that relate to being old and getting older, and they were all shuffled out of the way to handle this little ear problem. It's traveled down my neck to the place where my collar bone rests, and my neck rotates and leans, pinching the infected area by little more than a brief twist of my head.
Moral of my story!!
Be careful what I wish for... and after this mega-gooky-oozy-ugh!.. I'm a changed woman. I won't wish I had the chance to pop anything else. Nuffings! It just gets messy. And messy is complicated. Ugh.
Back to your regularly scheduled program, and for those of you who read this, thanks for tuning in and helping, simply by caring enough to read.
lil z - aka Karyn
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