Finally back to work today.
Very painful last week or so.
Never knew such things could get infected, abscess, then rupture.
I will NEVER give those of the feminine persuasion grief about childbirth now.
The 875mg Amoxicillin pills twice a day are just icing on the cake. 
Wow. You got it baaaaad! That is a boatload of anti-biotics.
I feel bad for people who go the hospital to get treated for something and end up being more sick as a result of something they picked up there. My sister had food poisoning out in Vegas the same night she was proposed to by her fiance. Spent twelve hours in the ER. Then came home to Florida and got even more sick with Enterococcus Faecalis. It can live on surfaces outside the body for 7 days. So she spent the next three weeks getting incorrect diagnoses from doctors that are complete morons while racking up major bills because they weren't resolving the issue and she had to go back/go to new docs to get it figured out. The one that did figure it out simply took a STOOL SAMPLE. Not one doctor had done that yet. Unbelieveable.
So she had flu symtoms for three weeks before a doc finally took a proper sample to diagnose. Then she had to take six tleft weeks of anti-biotics. And in the three previous weeks she had been hospitalized once a week for dehydration and related problems.
What ever you guys do. Understand what your doctor is doing to help/treat you, if you don't - you run the risk of not being diagnosed, being treated for something you don't have (while your body deteriorates), and potentially dying or being physically compromised for the rest of your life.
I almost died in the hospital because I picked up staph after getting pneumonia at the hospital. I had to treat for 6 weeks intravenously for that. And it damaged my heart so now I have to get a couple valves replaced. Luckily, my sister didn't have any lasting problems.
After I get my heart surgery, I have to get my back surgery redone because they permanently fused the top of my torso 25 degrees forward. The new orthopadist told me if I don't get it fixed I will likely never be able to run, jump, carry anything over ten pound and will keep having the muscle spasms because my whole lower torso's muscles are being unnaturally stretched constantly. He said a carpenter could have looked at it and known not to do it based on the simple physics of leverage. Hell I could look at it and tell. I went to the old ortho for months afterwards and he didn't mention a word of that when I visited him every month.
Not to mention that I'm two friggin' inches shorter
So if you get "diagnosed" with something, do your homework on it, make sure your symptoms match up, and make sure they are giving you the right course of treatment. It can literally save your life. At a minimum, it will save you a lot of money in copays, deductibles, etc.
IF you have a loved one go in the hospital, do the same for them, if they can't.
Sorry for the thread divergence. I'm sitting in my grandfather's ICU unit as I type this. I have had to make sure they are giving him the right meds, etc. They didn't even give him his heart medications the day after he came in. NONE of them. That alone could have led to an aneurism.
