Tuesday, November 3, 2009

A Rough Week for Braden....and Us!

It has been a rough week for Braden....and for the rest of us....worrying about him. He had a place on his knee (where he had fallen on concrete about 2 weeks ago) to end up getting infected. I thought it had healed but it must not have and just ended up a mess. He had a bump to come up on it that hurt. Then he got tripped at school and fell on it. From there on...we started our trips to the doctor. Our school nurse thought it was infected, and we went off for trip number 1. He ended up putting him on an antibiotic and culturing it for Staph. Yep...it was Staph. Okay...maybe the antibiotic will do it. Well..the next day it looked worse. But after trip number 2, the doc decided maybe we were on the right track. Well.....
Day 3...this started happening.



Day 4, it got worse and looked like this.....and he ran a fever at one point of 101.4. It finally started draining some after this picture.



Then....Day 5....this is what it looked like.


Day 6...it looked AWFUL!!! I guess we failed to get a picture.
Day 7...it started looking a little better. Trip number 3 to the doctor.
Now...another problem. Braden's face had started swelling. The doc sent us to the hospital to get some blood work done. Well...later on that night, Braden had broken out in a rash to go along with the swelling. By this time, I am on the computer looking for allergic reactions to the medicine among other things. By the time I got to talk to the doctor about 11:30 p.m. he had already developed hives, also. Benadryl time! Thankfully, it helped. We were close to having to visit the ER. Kodak moment after blood work. See how his cheeks are red and his face swollen....(It may be hard to tell in the picture...it was dark and I took it in the van.)
Now we are assuming Braden is allergic to sulfa. The bloodwork looked great (thankfully) so now we have changed his antibiotic and hope we are on the right track. His knee is looking better and has started peeling now.
He is still broken out and still having some issues with the hives or something. This is what it looked like on Tuesday night. This is on his outer thigh. It started out clustered and spread apart. Weird....
We hope and pray we are on the right track now. It has definitely been a rough week for all of us!
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6 comments:

  1. AmberNovember 4, 2009 at 8:03 AM

    Bless your hearts, I had no idea until last Wed. night when Denise mentioned it to me but still no idea it was that bad. My sister has had 3 seperate cases in her house in the last few months and the doctor has now got them on medicated shampoo's and soaps and having them clean with hospital grade cleaners to try to get rid of it (mostly for the baby's sake).
    Hope everything continues to improve and this week is a lot better for you guys.

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  2. Kathryn @ Bonafide SouthernNovember 4, 2009 at 8:18 PM

    Poor little Braden. I hope he continues to get better.

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  3. Little Gifts From GodNovember 4, 2009 at 8:42 PM

    I hope he is better soon! Bless his heart!

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  4. CCWNovember 5, 2009 at 11:37 AM

    Poor Braden! I sure hope he's better soon! :)

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  5. Leanne HelumsNovember 5, 2009 at 2:57 PM

    Gross!! Tell Braden that he is just too cute to have something like that. HA!! Besides I need his full knee strength to help me keep up with my church runner. He would understand that. :)
    Bless his heart. I hope he gets better soon.

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  6. BethNovember 5, 2009 at 8:09 PM

    Thanks for all the "get well" wishes. He is doing better and we hope to continue on the road to recovery. We are so thankful he is better. He is still broken out some, I guess from the allergic reaction, but much better than he was!

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