2 weeks ago I woke up with my left cheek swollen and red. It hurt to brush my teeth, sleep on my left side, even yawn. My mom, thinking it was just a bad pimple, set me on her bed and hovered over me with a long thin needle and a q-tip. After several minutes of excruciating pain and tears running down my swollen, disfigured face, I promised her if she stopped I would go to see a doctor the next morning.
I sat in the waiting room for no more than 10 minutes ( the shortest doctors wait of my life) and sat on the noisy, tissue paper they put on the examining beds. When the doctor and her student walked in, I felt embarrassed. Mainly because she asked why I waited so long to come in, and because I had to tell her my mom was playing doctor and tried to "squeeze the crap out" of my face.
I was told I had an Abscess (an infection of a wound) and had to be put on medication and painkillers. I was given an anti-biotic shot and was told to rush to the Emergency Room in the morning if I didn't see any improvement. That was on a Friday. So Saturday morning, I rushed to the mirror as soon as I woke up, and saw a drastic improvement of my face. Thinking OK, it's not worse, I will not go to the ER. Its not until my follow up appointment with the DR that she sends me to another Dr to see if I need to get the abscess drained. (ouch).
By then, my face is no longer as swollen, nasty stuff is oozing out of a gaping hole on my cheek. Not the prettiest sight in the world.
Anyway, I'm still waiting on the results of what could have been the cause of the infection, spider bite, pimple gone wrong, or something else.
The hardest part of this all is that I missed out on seeing one of my good friends before she left to Argentina for a month. And had to cancel a get together to play ROCK BAND at my place.
It's been terrible being cooped up in my house and not being able to have much contact with the outside world.
Oh, and Juliette got a real bad case of ringworm and was covered with lumps on her body. What we first thought were allergies turned out to be ringworm, so shes been on medication too. I guess it's true what they say, like owner, like pet.
