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Fucking hell. That’s the worst. Both kids had this a few weeks ago. Relentless vomiting. Then diarrhoea (I had that bit, along with a constant sense of nausea and extreme lethargy).
That is a crazy, ridiculous amount of time. You must both be deliriously sleep deprived. Really hope it’s not much more waiting for her.
Cheers @pacef8 and @owl - I held it together, and am on the ward now. It was annoying that I was basically silent screaming and tapping out hard during the first lancing (formally ‘needle aspiration’), and then he said he had to go in again for round two! That took some serious internal psyching.
Anyway, had a few drips now and I’d say that half the time swallowing is completely fine - especially when drinking, and the rest of the time is much less painful. The associated toothache/earache/headache/neck/jaw pain has gone. Now I think about it, I did have an abscess before in one of my teeth - and this has been a lot like it in terms of the type of pressure derived, throbbing pain.
A night in the ward with an eye mask and noise cancelling headphones and then another set of drips tomorrow and I can go (I think).
What a mad and unexpected ailment to develop. Never heard of it before and literally only discovered it while idly googling in A&E at 3am. The original phone consultant is calling me back on Friday - be interesting how surprised he is about what happened since. Pretty sure if their questionnaire had just asked if it was worse on one side, then quinsy would have come up, and NHS advice is that it’s a hospital job.
Anyway, glad it was me really that went through this, and that no one else in the house had to endure it.