Monday, August 23, 2010

Mastitis

Mastitis- The CRAPPIEST form of a so called flu any women will ever experience!! The shivers, the shakes, the fever, and OHHHH the body aches! Last night I'm pretty sure it was all coming to a big blow! I hadn't been feeling so great ALL day. Alex took the kids out for a drive and I decided to take my SECOND hot bath of the day. The water was nice and hot. My hoo hoo's were of course painfully stiff (reason: I am not nursing or pumping...I may get to that in a later post), so anyway I decided to loosen them up by massaging them and expressing the milk that was causing all this pain. Got that done. Started bleeding again A LOT! Then it hit me, maybe I have Mastitis. I was experiencing ALL the signs. Alex got home. I could hardly walk around I was in so much pain, not to mention when I would get up, the chills came out with a vengeance. I was in tears. How could I handle the night and the whole next day with my kids? Pain meds were not working, this was my worst nightmare. To make a long story short, my dear husband gave me a priesthood blessing. I went to bed. Today I am feeling pretty ok. I was going to make a call to my Dr. but all that pain is gone. No more shivers, no more shakes, no fever, and the body aches are back to "normal". Maybe I was getting sick with Mastitis, who knows, maybe I still will. But I am grateful for a loving and worthy husband who can give me a blessing when I need it. I am grateful for a loving Heavenly Father who can heal those who have the faith to be healed.

5 comments:

  1. oh mastitis is the worst! Im glad you are feeling better - but id call your dr and get some back up antibiotics! it comes on so fast - and then you hit the point of no return! hope everything is going well for you guys! We will bring over dinner this week sometime. have alex call gabe!

    ReplyDelete
  2. They say it will only go away with an antibiotic, but I swear mine went away on it's own with Graden. Not with Burke though. I was on meds for that one! I am glad you are better! I so know how you feel!

    ReplyDelete
  3. I'm glad you are feeling better, but I agree with Christy call your doctor and get the meds now, if you are trying to dry up the well who knows if you will get it again.

    ReplyDelete
  4. Oh, sounds rotten. Thank goodness for the power of the priesthood - you gotta love it.

    ReplyDelete
  5. OUCH!!! Go get the drugs! I can't believe how bad you have had to fight mastitis with your kids. I'm so sorry!

    ReplyDelete