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Monday, March 13, 2006

PSA

Learn from my negligence!

This applies to parents and non-parents alike (though it won't help you much with pets since you'll be told to RUN don't walk to the Animal Medical Center no matter what): have the phone number of a 24-hour pharmacy at your fingertips.

With no warning at all, I suddenly got what was unmistakably a blocked milk duct and when I got home I began the recommended treatments. Within three hours, I was dizzy and had chills and spent some time on the sofa musing about home remedies.

Somehow it occurred to me that it wasn't actually cold in the house and a thermometer confirmed this, telling me that I had a fever of 101.5. Pregnancy For Dummies says this qualifies as a "high temperature" and told me to call my doctor immediately and report mastitis.

Never mind that when you have a 13-month-old it isn't called "mastitis" any more, but a "breast infection," as I learned from my doctor's answering service (even if I hadn't been feverish, it was Friday night: everyone deserves a good time even emergency operators, why rain on their parade by arguing about semantics?). That's what it is, and hot compresses don't really work anymore.

And then a tiny computer odyssey commenced when my doctor did call back in the middle of a web search for a pharmacy. Eventually we did find one, but not without considerable impatience. It was rather far away, as well.

So, track one down, put the number on your list of emergency contacts and I hope you never have to use it.

And if you think you can't get mastitis (if you will) because your kid is too old . . . there's a reason the word "hubris" was invented.

posted by Elise at 5:42 AM

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3 Comments:

mcm said...

Hi... perhaps I'm the only one with this issue, but as much as I enjoy this blog, I find the light blue font really difficult to read on the purple background. Does anyone else have this issue, or do I need to adjust my settings?...

3/15/2006 1:21 PM

Elise said...

Do you mean the light blue for the links or is all the type coming out light blue for you?

The bulk of the type should be black (I hope). I'll look into the link color.

3/15/2006 5:04 PM

mcm said...

light blue for the links (sorry, should have clarified) - I often can't read that text!... (Also, I guess I assumed that other commentors - commenters? - would chime in and let me know if I was crazy, but they didn't... so thanks for looking into it!)

3/16/2006 4:23 PM

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