to continue my post from 24 hours ago...
last night ended up being pretty rough. Neither of us slept much as Levi was awake from 2:30-6:30 :-( Around 4 am I woke Marcelo up to take over which he graciously did. Its just hard when the baby fusses and cries a lot which is what happened last night. Not to mention the fact that I had a 101 degree fever all night.
As my fever wasn't going away as it had done before...I ended up going to urgent care today and got a script for some antibiotics. My hunch of mastitis was right and the doc said it was very common. She also said its not unlikely that I will get it again but can possibly avoid by feeding Levi or pumping my milk every 3 hours.
We got home and I was still feverish so I took some ib profin and slept for about 5 hours under heavy blankets waking up only once to feed the baby. Unfortunately I still had a fever upon waking so took more meds and felt better tonight. Luckily I had an appetite and had a good dinner and drank a ton of lemon water to help flush my system.
Being a person who is oriented to the least level of medical intervention possible, I still haven't started the antibiotic. I've decided to wait a full 24-36 hours after I first got a fever to see of I cant kick this thing on my own. So we'll see. Fingers are crossed!
It's been a hell of a past 24 hours, probably the toughest yet. I'm grateful Levi is sleeping peacefully right now. I'm grateful for Marcelo who stayed up with him in the wee hours and took care of him a lot today so I could rest. I'm grateful for his Mom who came over this morning and again this afternoon to help with things not to mention making us a 3 course hot meal. I'm grateful for my brother and his wife who offered wise medical consultation to me. And also thankful for the doc I saw as she was pretty nice too.
Ciao for now! Hoping things stay up from here!
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