October 21st, 2010 - I have an infection where?!

It was so nice to be at our home with our new baby and settling into the next chapter of our lives.  That first night was pretty typical for having a new baby.  We were up every couple hours to feed and change her and she was eating and pooping like a pro.  The next morning (which means early afternoon when you are on newborn time) we took turns showering.  This is when the fun of the saga continued. 
I was washing off and noticed some pain in my under-arm, right armpit to be exact.  I finished up and got out to dry off.  I realized that I had a large lump in my armpit and that was what was hurting so bad.  I called Steve up and showed it to him.  He thought it was probably just a swollen lymph node from my body trying to fight off everything, but recommended I send the doctor a message just to be sure.  We are extremely blessed to have a very close relationship with our family doctor, who lives a couple houses up from us.  So, I sent him a text asking if it's normal.  He responded pretty quick with "No, not normal.  Stop down to see you soon".
When he came over to check it out, it wasn't news that made me happy.  I must have had an open pore from shaving within days of going into the hospital and it became the perfect entry for a staph infection.  Thanks Salem Hospital.  To add to an already (insert sarcasm here) "fun" week, now I had a staph infection.  The doctor put me on some heavy antibiotics to hopefully kick it out of my body before it got worse.  I thought this would all be resolved pretty quick, but that's just not how this particular saga was going.
Steve had picked up the medication that same day and I got started on it that night.  By morning I was a couple doses in, but now I had a whole new thing to add to my plate.  A rash that was starting to spread all over my torso and back.  Lovely.  As if my feet and ankles weren't swollen enough, now I get to deal with an uncomfortable rash to accent the rest of me.
We looked up the medicine on Steve's new (early Christmas present) I-pad (thanks Mom and Dad Chancellor) and found it is a sulfa drug, which I am allergic to.  Lovely.  Now time to get back on the phone with the doctor and get my next step, which was to stop the medicine obviously, wait 24 hours and then get started on some new antibiotics.  Steve was headed back to the pharmacy in hopes of this being the end to the additional ailments and to be getting to the "and They Lived Happily Ever After" part of the story.  I was starting to wonder when exactly that was gonna be.