A Staph-filled Week

Thanks to God for the weekend. We've finally gotten our feet back on the ground, so to speak, after a VERY interesting week.

Noland reacted to the black face paint used by the football players at the game last Friday. LOOK AT THE PICTURE!! This was how he looked by Sunday morning!!! It just started with a really big pore under his eye. It was black and I figured that the paint was in it. By Saturday it had swollen his cheek and he was feeling "flu-ish". By Sunday...his eye was swollen and very painful. Then DR. MOM kicked in.

I started with hot compresses and egg membranes to try to draw the infection out. Not to go into details....but there was some nasty stuff in that boy's face. It was really hurting him....so I used hydrogen peroxide and bactroban to try to kill what I couldn't get. Even with all that...we ended up at the doctor's office on Monday.

The doctor tried to take a sample, but the novacaine(sp) didn't work and the needles were so big. He has such a pain tolerance!!! So he looked worse when we left the office....but we had antibiotics in hand and went to work with those. 6 pills a day!!!

Doc called on Tuesday to check on him and decided that he needed to be hospitalized. I thought we were doing better, but what do I know. So we packed a bag...got our class work and headed back to the office. Upon seeing his face, Doc thought that we'd done a pretty good job and he didn't have to be admitted. HURRAY!!!

So we're much better and I'm off of the ceiling. More later as the drama of the household unfolds.