Armpit Abscess- Athens

The day after my Malaria is officially gone I discover a lump in my armpit. Carlie thinks it’s a swollen lymph node, Janna thinks it’s a parasite, and well I’m not really sure what it is I just want it to go away. I spend the night sleeping all awkward because it caused me so much pain.

I gave in and went to see the doctor two days later and one look at it and she says it’s an abscess. I guess Olen and Jamie have both had on in their armpits too. So I am not alone in this. She prescribed me Cipro and told me to put warm and cool compresses on it. I guess we’ll see where it goes from there.

I’ve had this abscess for 1 week now and it has grown to the side of a very large almond. It would throb with pain very time I moved my arm or leaned on it. I’ve had to sleep on my back with my arm at a 45 degree angle from the side of my body just so I could sleep without pain. I’m not even going to go into the fact that I can shave my armpit because of the mass and the pain. It’s so gross!!!

2 weeks- My abscess is still there the pain has minimized a great deal but the size is the same but it has become firm and when palpating around you can feel a mass beneath the protrusion. Danae says it could turn into cellulites. That would be just my luck! My eyes wide she sees that I’m appalled. “Can’t we just cut it out?” She says yes, thank God.

3 weeks- It is going down by itself. No surgery needed. There is a small lump underneath the skim and a darkened area where it was but I’m pretty much abscess free. Just pray it does not return with a vengeance. And now I can shave my armpit finally! 

Abscess in the flesh, literally. Unshaven and stinky.