Robert2

It sounds like she did a very baaaaaad thing.

First, when one doesn't follow through with the full course of antibiotics, the infection can mutate and become stronger and more resistant to treatment with antibiotics.

Second, by just letting the abcess go unchecked, your wife may have inadvertantly caused the release of the new, resistant bacteria into her blood stream. This bacteria can migrate to different parts of the body, such as the heart valves and inner ear, and take a hold. Causing a lot of damage. Your wife may have an inner ear infection that is causing her problems.

You need to take her to a good doctor and have a white cell count done to see if it's normal. Your wife needs to take her temperature a couple times a day to see if she has a low fever which would indicate an infection somewhere.

The doctor may be able to treat you wife with sulfa drugs. I would give it top priority.