Let me start at the beginning. This all started yesterday as we were walking out the door to go to church. Liam could not get his socks on because his foot hurt so bad. He had what we thought was a blister on his foot on Tuesday which his teacher put a band-aid on. I assumed it was a blister because his shoe had broken and it was rubbing on his foot. So, the “blister” is now infected and I took Liam to the dr and Sean took Colm to Sunday School. The dr we saw said it could be a blister or maybe a recluse spider bite. Most of the signs point to a blister though since he has not had a fever and there was no blood in his urine. She gives us a scrip for an antibiotic and sends us on our way with instructions to follow up with our regular dr on Wednesday. This morning Liam wakes up with hives ALL OVER his torso and back. Liam seems to think it is a bug bite. Apparently he is allergic to the antibiotics they gave us, just like Sean is. So, we head back to the drs, but this time we go to the walk-in at our regular drs office, but don’t see our regular dr. This dr is worried that Liam’s “blister” could be a staph infection and now we have to watch him like a hawk. She gave us some different antibiotics, but it doesn’t work on staph infections. The one he is obviously allergic to, however, does work on staph infections. So now we have to wait until Wednesday for the culture they took of his foot to come back to see what kind of infection it is. I really hope it isn’t staph because if it is I don’t know what we are supposed to do since he is allergic to the drugs that treat it. I have had quite a morning.
This is two hours after his first dose of Benadryl. You should have seen it before!
Better now? Poor kiddo…