Re: Look Ma! No hands

NightMist, I am so sorry that you've been ailing so bad. I wouldn't have
guessed it from reading your posts - you always sound so ... jovial. I don't
think I'd have been as helpful as you always are if I were in your shoes.
Don't suppose you'd share some of your genes, would you? :)

Anywho, I hope you feel better ASAP. For pete's sake, get some rest ... and
feel better!!

On the subject of mastoid bones, my DD, when she was 1 1/2 had to have her
mastoid bone drained. She'd had an ear infection for over *6* weeks (took
her in several times complaining that the antibiotics weren't working, but
the doctor knew "all" and told me I was being silly) ... and finally one
morning, she woke up with the area behind her ear the size of a tennis ball.
She went into surgery the next morning.

Later, the surgeon told me that we were VERY lucky - she was about a week
away from the infection turning into menningitis. So an infection of the
mastoid bone is *nothing* to treat lightly.

Hoping you feel better soon!! Sending warm quilty thoughts and prayers your
way!!

Hugs!!
--
Connie :)
http://sewverycreative.blogspot.com


"NightMist" <nightmiste@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:4783fd4d.8781775@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
On Tue, 8 Jan 2008 13:02:43 -0600, "Leslie & The Furbabies in MO."
<quilteacher@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Oh dear... I haven't done that and don't expect to in this lifetime....
LOL

I am so NOT touching that.

Hope you get feeling better real soon. It's been a long time that you've
been sick. That's kinda scary.....

Round about month plus a little.
Truly, If I hadn't gone to the doctor I might be better now.
But just stupidly doing what the ENT prescribed (well she _is_ the
doctor) healed the skin and locked the infection in, so it got as bad
as it was before and went to my chest to boot. I have had this sort of
bronchial infection from the ears draining down the eustachian tubes
plenty of times before. Though it flattens me pretty thoroughly, I
will say it is lots and lots better than when the infection goes into
the mastoid process. An abcess there is possibly one of the most
painful things I have ever felt.

Next time I have to see a medical I am going to wait for an
appointment with Dr Hottie. The clinic hates when you do that, but the
PA's are afraid to prescribe for me, and if the ENT is going to make
these kinds of boneheaded mistakes I am better off without her.
Probably no longer a wait for an appointment with one doctor than the
other anyway. Besides Dr Hottie knows my mutation and will have a
notion as to whether I should take sulfa or not.

I am about back to where I was pre ENT now. The one ear is a little
drippy, the other is almost completely better. My chest is no longer
tight and rattly, and while I still have a bit of congestion I am not
drowning if I lie flat anymore.
A couple of days or a week and I will be fine enough.

NightMist
men have nipples too
--

The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the
majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with
the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
- AA Milne


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