Mean Green Mastitis Thing

I have Mastitis.

It's horrible.

It started early Friday with a sharp pain which became almost unbearable by night time. By the time I went to bed Friday night I felt like I was getting the flu and I had a temperature of 101.4. Saturday morning I felt a little better and was able to visit with Serge who stopped by for a quick visit after seeing his sister here in North Carolina. But by early Saturday afternoon I was much worse and couldn't get out of bed. I didn't want to call the doctor because I was afraid she'd tell me to go to the emergency room but there was no way I could make that trip. If I was going anywhere it would be by Mike carrying me (and Zoe at the same time?!) or by ambulance. Seriously, that's how bad it was.

After crawling out of bed and checking things out on Webmd (and deciding it had to be Mastitis) I finally called the doctor. It took the on-call nurse 2 hours to diagnose me and call my pharmacy with an antibiotic. 2 hours!!! It took me less than five minutes to diagnose myself on Webmd! (take a deep breath) By the time I got my antibiotic my temperature was 102.7.

I am SO lucky that this all happened during the weekend so Mike could take care of Zoe. I really don't know what I would have done if it had happened during the week because I literally slept from Friday night until Sunday evening non-stop (besides Serge's visit and the stupid 2 hour call to the doctor).

I feel tons better now.

I do not wish this upon anybody. It hurt really bad (even my fingers were hurting). The pain was right up there with labor pain.