Kaitlyn's Trip to the ER

One night last week Eric was helping Kaitlyn wash her hands and noticed that her thumb was super swollen.  And she had a pus looking head on it.  In that moment, I freaked out.  I was convinced that she had some sort of bite and was having an allergic reaction.  I looked at her other fingers and thought they looked puffy.  After about 30 seconds of discussion, I threw her in the car and we were off.  Eric called and said the urgent care place we go to wasn't answering the phone, so we wasn't sure if they were still accepting patients (it was 8:30 and their website said they close at 9).  So I opted for the ER.  I went to the same one I visited in December.

The ride to the ER was agony.  I was convinced that she was getting worse.  She wasn't talking to me and I was having a hard time seeing her in the dark.  Really, she was probably just tired and freaked out by the fact that we were in the car instead of her bed.  And the fact that her mom was going a bit nuts.

Long story shorter, she had an infected abscess that needed to be drained.  Not sure where it came from.  They made me feel horrible - "something like that doesn't pop up over night."  Well, it turns out no one noticed - not daycare, not school, not us! Even worse, it was staph! I found out this week that the school has 2 other cases.  So I guess she got a minor cut and the staph got in while playing with something at school?!?!

The whole ordeal was pretty painful.  We were there almost 4 hours.  2 men had to hold her down and i had to help too while the doctor did it.  And it didn't end there.  They put this huge bandage on her thumb in an attempt to keep it covered and she freaked out!  So when they were done with the procedure, she cried and cried - "take it off!"  It broke my heart.  And then, she cried and screamed "I want to go home!" Because of course, it took them forever to get us our discharge papers.  They gave us antibiotics for her to take - at the time that was just precautionary as they didn't have the test results back yet.

It is looking much better (11 days later). It just looks like a blister now.  Poor kiddo!!