Remember that old Irish curse? May your life be interesting.
When I came home from the agility trial, I discovered that my labia was very hot, enlarged, and enflamed. As minutes ticked on it got worse.
Made it to school, but it was getting larger, and hotter as the clock ticked. Walking hurt, standing hurt, everything hurt, and it just kept getting worse. I picked up the phone at 1:00 pm and called my ob/gyn’s office. Begged for the first appointment available, which was 2:30 pm today. Not bad. I suspect if I pushed the issue, I could have gotten a quicker appointment but I also didn’t know if we had anyone to cover me. Nor was I really able to be covered.
Got through the day — and good news — we graduated some of our ELI students to regular classes. Of course they were my best kiddos, and I’m sorry to see them go, but I’m glad they are earning high school credits now. My class sizes are down to around 25 a piece and I think there are a few more to go.
Requested a half day sub, starting in the afternoon today, and unfortunately no one got the assignment. Next time I’ll know I have to take a full day off. I was hoping our sub situation was a bit better this year.
Checked my email in the Treo on the way out and noticed that my CDE had left me a message that there was an Accu-chek Aviva with my name on it waiting for me in the office, and since it’s somewhat close to the ob/gen office, I swung by there first.
Got to the ob/gen and didn’t have to wait long. I don’t think I had gotten it across to anyone how bad the situation was, but yesterday evening the labia infection had burst. Basically when it burst that entire area was engorged with the infection and my doctor caught on it that fact as soon as he got a look at me. He cleaned up the area, drained some other problems and diagnosed it as an ordinary abcess (as opposed to some real nasty vaginal stuff).
Here’s the deal… I’ve been noticed that if I let my blood sugar jump, even just a little bit over a few days, I get an infection. Last year, it was in my teeth and who knows why it decided to pick another area, but it did. And let me tell you, it was pretty painful, both the process AND the treatment.
The good news, is that the swelling is down, and most of the pain is relieved. I’m also on oral antibotics. I am thinking now, that I might need to just have a dose on hand for the next trip. I don’t get that many.
Of course, it may be a chicken and an egg thing — and all a coincidence, but I can’t help to think that the elevated blood sugar I had on Wednesday, which persisted about 4 days, contributed to the problem. The weird part, is that my blood sugar was only 20-50 points higher those days then on any given day and that my blood sugar was much higher than that over a longer period time in the past.
It does emphasis the need to me to keep a tight control on the blood sugar.