a scary moment....

I am a little worried and decided it would help to write it down here. While I was in Texas taking care of my mom. She was so weak and shaky she couldn't take her blood sugar. I started taking it for her, I got quite good at it. But I absolutely hated jabbing mom with the lancets. They are these little plastic things with a sharp end that pokes them and draws the blood out. When Aunt Brenda came she taught me to put the lancet in a pen thing. Then you just push a button and the lancet jabs them quickly. I liked using that much better. But a week ago today after I drew her blood, I was pulling the lancet out, it slipped and I poked myself pretty bad with it. I immediately ran into the bathroom and poured hydrogen peroxide, then alcohol, then soap and water, then did it all over again. Plus I prayed hard. I was worried but there was nothing I could do. Gina was worried so she called the doctor and the nurse told her, I should do exactly what i did. So that made me feel better. But it is possible that she was very wrong.

Fast forward to Monday. I thought I sprained my finger, it was so sore and shooting a little pain like a little muscle up to my elbow.  I told Chris that I must have pulled my finger some how, I was trying to think how I could have done it. Then it hit me late that night.  As I was washing my hand I noticed that finger had a lot of pain coming from one spot. The spot I poked myself. I hadn't felt anything for days. I didn't even remember I had poked it. I called a doctor friend in Arizona to see if I needed to rush to the ER or anything. Because my mother had on of the scariest kinds of staph infection, and a blood infection. He told me to just get to my doctor in the morning. Well my doctor was gone until the 7th. So I had to see a back up doctor. He had no patients for a reason! His nurse told me she thought I was going to need something to help me. He was really odd. He gave me a prescription and said to take it if my finger started getting red and stuff. Then he started asking me about mammograms and pap smears. I got out of there and went and filled the prescription. I decided to start it, because even though it wasn't "red" yet. It hurts and the hurt came out of the blue.

The scary part is I read a little about MRSA staph. And it can lie dormant for years. I hope my antibiotics will knock anything I might have out. And plenty of prayers. If you get exposed to something from doing a service for somebody. Don't you think the blessings can knock it out? I do I am thinking positive!