girlfiend

I have mastitis again. AGAIN. I had it once on my right breast when Miss N was just a few days old. After a two week run of antibiotics I got it again, on the left side. Now, while I’m still taking the antibiotics from the second round I have it again on the right. WTF?

My OB, who I’m losing patience with, made me come in so she could feel my breasts and tell me yes, I have mastitis again and give me the same freaking antibiotic. I have to get a breast ultrasound to make sure there’s not an abscess at a different testing center in the hospital. She could have just given me the prescription for the ultrasound and not made me scramble to find last minute babysitting to come in so she could confirm that I have mastitis again. I told her I didn’t want to come in because I am now an expert at self diagnosing mastitis, but she made me come in anyway so I had to kill my morning waiting in her office with a baby who would have preferred to be sleeping at home.

And now I have to go back to the hospital Friday for the ultrasound and divide my children among two babysitters because I don’t want to have to leave anyone with all three. Such a pain in the ass. And I’m pretty sure that I don’t have an abscess, I just have bad luck right now and maybe if she’d switch the antibiotics it would stop, because, really, if the first four weeks of antibiotics didn’t work why am I on the same one for another two weeks? But I am not the medical professional. I am just the one with the sore boobs.

Other than that, I am fine. A little over a week before B is done school for the summer and I can get a break. And I bought $40 soap. It better be worth every penny.