Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Prayers needed

Yesterday Emma woke up with an infection in her foot, by the time we got to the doctor at 3, it has moved up to right below her knee in the front. There was nothing we could culture. We are thinking it possibly happened when her pulse ox probe turned her toenail to mush, like it always does even though we move it around all the time to other spots. We recently went from having 4 probes a month to 2 thanks to medicad and I just wonder if they are so dirty they made her sick?

Doctor says its either strep (which he thinks it is) or staph. He gave her a shot of the antibiotic rocephin, in case it was strep and amoxicillin to start today if its strep. Also has her on bactrim to cover it if is staph.

We have to watch it, if it gets worse we have to take her to Children's hopital to have iv antibiotics. We are really hoping to avoid this. Keep us in your thoughts.

Here are some pics of it this morning, it has spread a tiny bit outside the pen lines we drew, but it did that yesterday in the dr office and also a tiny bit right after her shot. Its been the same all night, and this morning its a shade lighter red, with her toe and spot on her shin turning back to pink/white. The pics not too great, if I used the flash it drowned everything out, without the flash was a bit dark so I had to edit it and add some contrast and light and its still not quite right but you get the idea of how sad her little leg looks.
Also put up some pics of her in the van lift bus coming home from the dr and some on the dr table while awaiting her shot.




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