My grandmother on her homestead survived that without antibiotics, apparently because it did breach the skin and was able to drain. Crazy to think that not all that long ago, that was considered lucky for such an infection.
Yeah. If the abscess had drained, I would have recovered much quicker. It was hidden pretty deep and didn't quite make it to the surface though. They had to bring in a interventional radiologist to perform an ultrasound guided procedure with a ridiculously long probe meant for liver biopsies just to get at the thing.
