Monday, June 6, I noticed a little red mark on Jane's back and wondered if a bug had bitten her. Unsure, we still dressed for the pool and headed down to the baby pool/lazy river/indoor pool where we spent the rest of the afternoon.
Wednesday, June 8
Hyde and I watched Jane's back and saw that it was getting worse. Jessi, our nurse neighbor, came and looked at it and told me it was a boil and it needed to be drained. Jessi lightly pressed on her back and this is what came out. That was just the beginning.
Thursday, June 9
We made a morning appointment with our pediatrician's partner, Danita Weary. Jane has a boil with possible staff and is now on an antibiotic, Bactrim. She should be better by Monday. Warm compress 2-3x a day. Still a 100.5+ fever but could be from runny nose or her teething (her bottom I-teeth are cutting and the top gums are swollen). The doctor drained a ton out! I just drained more-against Jane's wishes and we are taking it easy.
Poor thing!
Friday, June 10
Jane went along with her day like nothing was wrong. That evening when I was bathing her, I got extremely nervous about what I was seeing. Here is the video I sent to Hyde on his way back from Houston.
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Phillips and Laurel and Randy Tillman made a house and we called our pediatrician. With everyone's opinion and suggestions, we decided to stay in for the night and re-access the situation in the morning once Jane had been on the antibiotic for 48 hours. We really wish our doctor had taken a culture to confirm the bacteria we are fighting.
Saturday, June 11
Jane woke with a 102 fever, but the area affected decreased by almost half. The red line shows where it was Friday night.
Phillips bought an out of town surgeon over to look at her back and she immediately agreed it needed to be drained. We figured instead of going to After Hours where they would tell us to go to the ER where they would have to call the on call surgeon, we would just call the surgeon, Dr. H Kuiper. He agreed to meet us at his office to look at Jane. Because the medicine needed for surgery requires no food or drink for 6 hours and Jane had just eaten, we had to wait.
Antibiotics are not really working (probably staph not 100% sure yet) and from there has become an abscess that must be drained with surgery and treated with stronger antibios. She will be admitted at 6:30am tomorrow. Op @ ~8am. Nothing to panic over but say a little prayer for her anyway.
