Before antibiotics, women with persistent mastitis ended up with breast abcesses that had to be surgically drained, all the while continuing to feed. My grandmother, born 1902, had one in the late 1920s that she still shuddered to remember nearly 70 years later.
It's a horrible horrible sickness, and fever, and Rivka, you are doing so well to remain compos mentis enough to think about Alex and post as well. You'll be fine, it will pass, and Alex is a lucky girl.
And the silver lining is that some things that throw mothers of toddlers for a loop if they've had an easy time up until then, will seem simple and ordinary to you after getting through this.
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Date: 2005-05-15 11:05 am (UTC)It's a horrible horrible sickness, and fever, and Rivka, you are doing so well to remain compos mentis enough to think about Alex and post as well. You'll be fine, it will pass, and Alex is a lucky girl.
And the silver lining is that some things that throw mothers of toddlers for a loop if they've had an easy time up until then, will seem simple and ordinary to you after getting through this.
Be well, and heal
Emma