ONE CRAZY DAY!!!!!

So we had one very crazy day yesterday. But I am going to start with the least important thing, my garden. I got 2 cucumbers, 1 zucchini, and my first red ripe tomato it is laying on a nickle, that's my luck:-) Then we had our nephew spend the night with us, his semester of school was over and he was flying home the next day. The princess was still here when he got here and her obsession with him was still in full force. She would sit by him when he sat on the floor and try to climb on him when he was on the couch. I took him to the airport the next day and sent him back to Texas.
Then the crazy part happened. Issy has had this red spot on her face for 3 weeks. It has been the same size and shape for 2 weeks. She has been on 2 different antibiotics to try to help, while the medicine got rid of her high fever and all of the other spots she got. That big red bump had not changed.

So Erin made an appointment with the doctor for Friday afternoon. The Doctor called Erin and tried to get her to change her appointment to next week. She almost said OK, but she decided to stand up to him and let him know she was really worried and Issy needed to be seen. He was over booked all day, so I guess he was trying to clear some stuff out himself. Erin told him she was willing for Issy to see a different doctor. So he made her an appointment in about an hour.
Erin threw her clothes on, fed Issy something at 10:00 threw a few diapers into the diaper bag and went to the doctor. The doctor told her it was a lesion and it needed to be drained. He told her it would be to painful to do in the office and he decided to send her to the ER at the Children's Hospital so they could sedate her. So many things happened. Erin went and got Jon and he had to finish up stuff at work to leave. Issy wasn't allowed to eat or drink anything. So Erin could not eat or drink, because she didn't want to do it in front of the baby. So she was ubber sick, not being able to eat, with her morning sickness. Then Erin was so sad because Issy found an old dried up french fry in her car seat and she started to eat it on the way over to the hospital. She was so hungry and Erin had to take it away from her, even taking it out of her mouth. Issy was so very sad when her mom took it away, that broke her mothers heart.

They got to the ER around 2:00ish, I decided after dropping my nephew off to go to the ER and be with them. There were 2 grandpas, and 4 grandma's there with their kids. So I felt good I was one of the grandparents there for moral support. I got there around 3:00. They didn't take her back until 5:00. They didn't do anything to Issy for another hour after that.
They put her arms in a pillow case and then wrapped her in a blanket like a burrito. She was supposedly sedated but she was screaming her head off during this entire thing. She like her mother has a natural tolerance for medications. So it didn't work so well. The good thing is that medication makes them for get the 40 minutes or so that the medicine lasts. So she is not supposed to remember it.
They said said because it was on her face they wanted to be very careful about how they drained it because they didn't want to leave a scar on her sweet little face. GROSS ALERT- They deadened it and then they put a needle in it and tried to drain it. They drained it some, but they couldn't get everything. they said if everything wasn't cleaned out it would not heal. So we waited for a Plastic surgeon to get out of surgery and come and see her.

I was not supposed to be in the room with them. There were only supposed to be 2 adults at a time. But Erin said they could see she was on the edge and they didn't make me leave. I was so glad I could be in with my Princess and love on her while we waited. And waited........ Thank goodness for the I-phone because she could watch her favorite Elmo clips and that made her happier.

We still waited but they said she could have something to drink. She drank 2 boxes of Gatorade, and it made her even happier. SUPER GROSS ALERT! Around 8:30 the plastic surgeon came. He said they had to get the stuff out and he was going to have to go ahead and make an incision on the lump to clear it out. They sedated her with a much stronger medication. The first one made a person feel like they were drunk, this new one made her feel like she was stoned. It worked pretty quickly, all of the sudden her head flopped back and her eyes wondered off to space. She was still awake but just out of it. That medication was supposed to make her mind and body separate so she wouldn't remember again. The surgeon just did it in the room in front of us. Erin couldn't watch she just sat and cried. Issy was crying the entire time, but not screaming her lungs out. I comforted Erin and Jon stood by the baby. The surgeon cut a T shape into the lesion and drained the infection out. When it was all drained there was a pouch left. He said that the infection encapsulated and had created a tuff casing like and orange rind around it. He said all of those antibiotics would have never broken through it to clear it up. He was afraid it was staff. They ordered some heavy antibiotics. And they are culturing the stuff to try to figure out what it was. It was pretty late by the time it was done, and they wanted to observe her and load her with antibiotics. So she had to stay over night.

She slept while we waited for her room, then we got her in her room around 11:00 and she was awake and was allowed to eat. So the nurse brought her a banana and some bread and applesauce. She was so happy to get to eat again.
And she loved the pink blanket they had in the crib for her. Her father and I left around midnight. I had to take him to his car. Then he went back to the hospital. I got home around 1 and could get to sleep until some time after 2:00AM. They said it would take a full year to see how bad her scar will be. I hope it is small, but it is right by her mouth. My poor little princess, I hope the release her today!