One day...

closer to the end of this thing. We are emotionally exhausted. Poor Autumn had to endure another lancing this afternoon. The previous incision had closed up and the infection grew and spread again. Her temp has gone up and down since yesterday evening and there is now pink spots above and below the main infection. This time he made a much larger incision and another smaller one up by the original owie. He packed a wick into the cavity so it could not close up and would continue to drain. He put a shot of antibiotic that would kill strep in her thigh and gave us another prescription to add to the one from yesterday. Now we wait.... like yesterday, he said that progress would be holding it off for the next 24 hours - not to expect a true reduction.

The wound has drained a lot and maybe looks smaller and softer. The pink spot above the infection is gone, but the one below looks worrisome. As long as her temperature stays below 103 we will head down to urgent care again in the morning to have them take a look at it. The doctor said as long as she doesn't go into febrile seizures than there is no reason to take her to the ER, as they won't do anything more for her than is already done. Tomorrow the lab results will let us know for sure what we are dealing with - what type of staph, or the really rare case that it is something other than staph. On Wednesday they will have the results telling us what type of medication (if what she is taking isn't working) is going to kill the stupid stuff.

Praying that the medication she is on is effective, that her temperature stays down and that we all keep our sanity.

Tonight - I'm very thankful for modern medicine, the means to access it, and the caring knowledgeable doctors we have had.

I'm thankful for our general health, I have a new deep sympathy for parents with children with long term painful medical problems. I can not even imagine having to do this on a regular basis. My baby has experienced more pain this week - she is resilient, I know... but watching her be in physical pain is probably the very worst things I've ever had to do.

Bright moments through these days -

Last night I told Autumn that when the sun came up it would be daddy's birthday. This morning I was up making birthday goodies, when I heard her cry. Her bed is next to ours right now. I walk in our room and she was sitting up looking at Aaron and said, "Daddy, the sun came up! Daddy the sun is up!" I said - go give daddy birthday kisses - which she was happy to do!

I worked until noon this morning and met her and Aaron at urgent care. I walked through the door and was greeted by a big smile. I had picked her a plumeria and brought it to her. She happily took it and gave me a kiss. She looked down and paused for a minute and then looked up and said, "Mama, how was your day? Mama, at work, how was your day?" Made my heart melt.

While talking to Aunt Lisa - Aunt Lisa was asking her about her birthday and how old she is. She was trying to say second and then said "and no more mama's milk." This is the first time she has mentioned mama's milk since her last mama's milk the night of her birthday. It was just a matter of fact - she had her second birthday and that meant no more mama's milk. Not one second of being upset about it. Love this girl!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!