ouch...

well, i developed an abscess right beneath my eyebrow this week. it started to swell on tuesday evening at youth go's family night. about 80 people asked me what happened..."did you get in a fight?", "did you get stung by a bee?"...nope. well, wednesday morning i went to a walk-in clinic and the doctor told me that i either had an infected hair follicle or this was the start of shingles....really doc....you went to school for how many years and you can't tell the difference. he prescribed me some kind of antibacterial cream and told me if it swelled up a lot more or started to turn red, to come back in. well, the next day i made an appointment with my regular doctor. she looked at it, poked it, and said, "yes, you have an abscess, i'll need you to sign a consent form and we'll go ahead and cut it open and drain it." WHAT???? so i followed her into the procedure room, layed down on the table, received a freezing shot and the rest is history. she squeezed and squeezed and squeezed. then she used a kind of "spoon" to scrape out the rest. well after days of pain and many heat compresses later, the rest of the yuck came out yesterday and it's finally starting to feel better. today the swelling went down considerably, which is good because i have to get my drivers license retaken before the end of the month.

this is not the best picture, but i think you can tell by the dark circles under my eyes and the sad look on my face, exactly how awful i was feeling!