Regardless, Harper went to the pediatrician this afternoon and had her packing removed. She screamed herself hoarse, although this time it was Jason on duty. Mommy's nerves needed a break. Oh, note for the future: tylenol with codeine does not equal automatic naptime for Harper, which is really depressing. She refuses to let us take off her "blace-lek" (the hospital bracelet). Fine, suit yourself, I'll do anything to keep her from screaming and crying any more. We're not even going to discuss what her diet's been like the past couple of days.
She had no fever at all, which is definitely good. The doctor said it looks better, but still pretty bad. He didn't replace the packing. She has to go back in Thursday morning so (his words) "we'll have time to get a surgeon Thursday afternoon before the weekend if we need one". Yikes.
Her wound bleeds like crazy as soon as you take the bandage off. We have to sit her in a warm bath to soak it a few times a day, and I spend most of the bath on a stool with my head between my knees trying not to lose consciousness from the sight of it.
I try not to think about how much therapy she'll need in the future to overcome this fanny trauma.
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Any word on what caused the boil?
It really did start off as a pimple, like a diaper-rashy sort of thing. Then it got infected and went from there. The ped is assuming it's staph, although nobody at the hospital cultured it when they excised it. The pimple might have been from all the junk food I feed them, though.
Are we not supposed to feed them junk food? Damn, I had no idea!
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