And I'm not even talking about all of my joint issues!
Today, after a night of no sleep from a sore throat, I was sitting at work and realised my bum was hurting. It felt like it did before I had the abscess diagnosed/drained. This totally freaked me out. I investigated and lets just say I found something that was wrong. I immediately rang the doctor at NY Pres that did my wound check, but they first said they couldn't see me till the 5th, and then said someone would get back to me. I was not v. trusting after my first experience there so decided to ring my regular doctor who is just a few blocks away from my office. The best thing about having the same doctor for a million years is you know the staff and they take care of you. Her amazing assistant A. got me in withing an hour! That was impressive! So, she looked and said yep, something is definitely wrong and that I needed to see another specialist. I told her about the NY Pres doctor and that (I had found out after a call from one of the nurses there) she was going away. Dr. Rosen said there was someone in her building she referred to and rang down to see if he could see me. Amazingly, he could, and did so v. promptly. I was v. impressed with him and his staff. He's v. direct and to the point and laid it all out for me, which is what I need. Between crying I got the gist of it all, and it is not pretty, in any conceivable way! Basically I need to have surgery again, but he wants to wait at least two weeks so the area can calm down and heal a a bit, and he's put me on antibiotics for the interim. There are many case scenarios and I don't want /can't even begin to think about right now. I'm just praying very hard. He said the wound will be bigger than last time and takes about two to three months to heal. Well, I guess the upside is he said it would be okay for me to go swimming whilst it was healing. Silver lining somewhere I guess!
