SO has been in severe pain for over a week now. Being a tough manly man, he didn't let on how bad it was until Saturday. I took him to patient first. They looked at him for seconds, said he was fine, and told him what OTC he could take. The diagnosis mostly fit, but didn't explain the pain, so we agreed and went on. I'm pretty sure I ovulated around this time. I did ask if he wanted to BD and we managed to that night because he is awesome and puts me first. (I still feel bad having asked knowing what was actually going on now.)

We had people over Sunday so he put on his brave face and stuck it out. I went to work Monday. He texts me at work that we need to go to the ER because he has been scream crying in pain all day. We go and wait for 5 hours because he wrote what patient first diagnosed him with and it made him low priority. Finally get back there and the nurse practitioner listens to his symptoms, takes a look at the problem and tells him it is a potentially life threatening abscess and not the benign diagnosis from Saturday. They cleaned what they could there and gave him antibiotics. He is going to be in pain for the rest of the week and possibly longer if it needs surgery so no more BD this month. Glow says I'll ovulate this Friday but I'm just happy SO will get better instead of the life long pain he was expecting from the first diagnosis.

It is really hard watching him hurt though. He is my rock and keeps apologizing for being sick. I keep telling him it's fine but he just argues with me.

Mostly I feel guilty that I believed the first diagnosis and was getting annoyed with how much pain he was in. Also frustrated that it happened THIS week. Well, I'm done indulging in whining and ranting.

Moral: Don't go to patient first unless you know exactly what is wrong.