Super Star

It's been quiet.  Sorry...

I have been feeling a little peakish lately, but nothing compared to the Assistant.  It all began...

Thursday: With a dark spot on her belly button, where she apparently fell on a cardboard box while cleaning her classroom for the end of the year.  The doctor checked it out, since we were in for her six year checkup, and said it was fine.  She also has a spot of poison ivy, which he gives us a steroid cream for, as it's already quite large.

Friday: THE NEXT DAY, she had a 2"x3" circle of swelling and redness.  I couldn't even see inside her belly button.  By the time we saw the doctor, it was oozing.  He was concerned about a possible abscess and she's had trouble with MRSA in the past, so he put her on a sulfa med.  I'm allergic to sulfa, so was worried she'd be allergic, but science says allergies are not hereditary.  (You know where this is going, don't you?)  Sulfas can make your skin photosensitive, so we had to keep the Assistant inside and cool.

Sunday: Swelling is down.  The hard spot that could have been an abscess is easing, so no abscess.

Monday, Memorial Day, she's up at the crack of dawn.  "Mommy?  I have little red spots on my legs."  Oh... Call the doctor on call, who happens to be our doctor, and describe the spots.  He says, "Sounds like an allergy," and prescribes a new antibiotic, clindamycin, which apparently tastes even worse than the sulfa.

As the day progresses, we resort to the Assistant running around in her underwear to keep her from being too warm.  We, who eschew the use of AC, crank it on, and down, and down some more.

The poison ivy spot has now taken over her calf muscle, and the back of one thigh has a swollen red spot bigger than my hand.

Tuesday: I call the nurse, as I want to know how much longer she's going to break out in spots before she gets better.  We've got them in her hair, ears, forehead, cheeks, palms, soles of her feet, top of her feet, arms, legs, back, chest... Yeah, everywhere.  The nurse tries to tell me I don't need to bring her in, hydrocortisone cream will do the trick.  (Um, a whole tube at once is a LOT of cream for a little girl... Just sayin')

Get to see the doctor Tuesday at 4, and he says, "That might be hand foot and mouth disease."  Awesome.  So stinking NOT awesome.  So we have a girl who has now exposed almost all of her cousins, plus anyone else we saw on Sunday... It's probably a combo of HFM and her sulfa allergy, but he can't tread the sulfa part because that could cause the HFM to rebound.  Oh, joy.

Wednesday: Looking a little better.  Feeling a little better, but her thigh still hurts.

Today: There is hope that this will all end soon. Her confinement period will end Monday.

Lap quilt

And here's the quilt I made for the Assistant's teacher, who is a superstar.  The girls picked out a fat quarter bundle a while back, and I added the white background and solid blue to stretch the fabrics.  I hand quilted it in record time, and her teacher loved it.

from the room of Zana's Ninis,
katie z.