Naescher Family: I'm Exhausted

What a week it has been. Last Tuesday night I was giving the girls a bath and noticed this dark red spot on Miranda's behind. She would pull from me when I tried to touch it so I figured it out. I called the Dr. and they said to come in. He said it was a boil and he was going to pop it and that they needed to put it under a microscope and see what type of infection it is. He said if it would fester back up to call and they'd want to see her again. Well, Thursday morning it had festered back up so I took her back in. I find out that what she has is MRSA (aka community viurs). From what I've learned is it's very difficult to get rid of and is highly contagious. Worst case scenario - it's life threatening. If you catch it early and stay on top of it everything should be fine. I was pretty upset at first and my parents were in town so they came over to my house. Mom ended up staying and dad ran back to Spearfish to get mom some clothes. The girls were supposed to go to Spearfish for the weekend because I had to work, but we decided mom would just stay here with the girls. I didn't end up having to work Saturday or Sunday and we decided to have mom stay until Tuesday and dad could pick her up on his way back from Wall.

Saturday Malaya woke up saying her throat and neck hurt. I took her to the doctor and she had strept throat!!! So, she got put on a antibiotic. Monday I took Miranda back in and they took a swab of her throat and cultured it, and I should get the results tomorrow. Since she was on an antibiotic they had to culture it as opposed to the regular test. He looked at her MRSA and said it looked 1000 times better than last Thursday. So...thank God for that! He said he has had to hospitalize 2 other patients this past week for MRSA so thank God Miranda's body reacted well to the antibiotic.

I told Gary he picked a good weekend to not come home!! We're trying every other weekend to save some money!! It's been hard though. Although, having mom here has helped!!