Well I have been one sick girl lately! It all started with a stupid little stye. I have gotten styes before and it was never a problem. I just had to put a hot wash cloth on it a few times a day and then it would go away, no big deal. Well, for some reason this stye decided to go crazy! My eye became infected and it swelled up all the way down my cheek. I looked scary! I went to the doctor and she said that it was pretty bad and that it might be a staph infection so she put me on a really strong antibiotic and an antibiotic eye cream and told me to call her if it wasn't better by Friday (This was all on Wednesday 2/1/12). Friday came and my eye was worse so I called the doctor's office and got the answering service who told me that they had decided to close the office for the day. Ummm, ok.... I asked them to page my doctor because she had told me to call her. About four hours later she called me back and said I should go to the emergency room. Not what I wanted to hear. I went to the er and when the nurse was checking me in she said that I had a fever and my blood pressure was up. When the doctor finally came in he didn't even look at my eye. He told me it's just a stye and to put a warm wash cloth on it and it would get better. Then he asked me "You're on an antibiotic, right?" I said yes and he tells me "try poking it with a needle"!!! Can you even believe it?!?! I just stood there looking at him like you have got to be kidding me! He left the room and then a few minutes came back in and said "I'm just a P.A. so I asked the pharmacist and he suggested that I prescribe you a different eye cream". Ok, whatever. So I started on the new eye cream all the while still taking the oral antibiotic from my doctor. Well, Friday night I started feeling really sick. I started throwing up and just feeling really horrible all over. I had a temperature of 102 degrees and it would only go down to 99.7 on Tylenol. This went on all weekend. I couldn't keep anything down and my face looked like I had a sunburn. I called my doctor's office on Monday morning and the nurse told me I just had a virus. I tried to explain to her that I was turning red and it looked like I had a sunburn and she said it was probably just from the fever. I wanted to cry! I knew something was wrong but no one would help me. I wasn't sleeping at night because I was throwing up all night. I was absolutely miserable! I called again on Tuesday and told the nurse that my whole body was starting to look red. Once again she said that it was probably a virus. By Wednesday morning my whole body looked like I had a horrible sunburn. It itched but I couldn't scratch it because it hurt so much! Mark was even so worried and said that if the doctors didn't do something this time he was going to take me to Birmingham to the emergency room. I called my doctor and she finally got on the phone. I told her what all was happening and she got really worried and said that she thought I was having an allergic reaction to the antibiotic. She had me come in to her office and when she saw me she was amazed that I wasn't having any breathing problems! I had to have a steroid shot in the office and then she put me on a 6 day steroid treatment. I knew something was wrong and that I didn't have a virus. If I hadn't been throwing up and all of the medicine had been staying in me I would have ended up in the hospital. So, I am finally feeling better. I still get tired easy but my energy is coming back slowly. It has been quite an adventure! I now know that I can't have any sulfa drugs and, trust me, I will be sure to let all doctors that I may have in the future know this!
I have to go back to work tomorrow though. Besides the fact that I was so sick it was so nice getting to stay home every day! I am seriously considering quitting my job. I don't really need it and, once I started getting better, I enjoyed having the time and energy to get my house back in order. I know that once I'm back at work I won't feel like cleaning or anything when I get home. I'll wait and see how I feel after a few days of working before I just quit. It's just a thought, I don't want to rush into anything.
I will try to post more often (I know I've said that before). I just never seem to have time between school, work, church, and all my mommy duties. And then when I do have time I just get lazy and don't feel like it Lol! I'll work on it, I promise!
