Friday, February 24, 2012

Unknown

Wednesday morning Canyon woke up to flaming red and hot legs. The left leg was worse. As you can see it looks like he has been sunburned. His left leg was hot hot hot, swollen a full inch bigger and had a texture like goose bumps all over his leg. We went to the pediatrician. She had no clue what it is because Canyon has had no fever, no new exposures and relatively no pain. The doc said "let me look in a book and call a friend." One life line used only two more!! After she returned the verdict was the same, we have no idea what this is. So we are treating it like cellulitis and we will wait and see if it gets better or worse. I have a friend who is also a dermatologist he thinks it is a contact thing but I don't think so. I have another doctor friend who works at PCMC she thinks it is Staph Scalding Syndrome. I am still questionable about that as well. So we just continue treating with antibiotics and hope it gets better.

Day 1

Day 2: 24 hours of antibotics

Tiny little blisters. ouch!!
Day 3: 36 hours of antibiotics. I think it is working.So now we wait.

Canyon and Bridger sure love each other. Canyon is starting to see Bridger as a playmate and not some bump on a log. Yeah!. I can't wait for this summer.

4 comments:

  1. Oh my goodness! Poor little guy, that looks so aweful!! I sure hope it gets better quick!

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  2. oh wow! poor Canyon. That looks awful! Glad the antibiotics seem to be working. I hate it when the doctors don't even know what to do. Kinda makes you feel helpless.

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  3. That's crazy! I am glad its getting better. So weird.

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  4. Ouch! That is so crazy! But leave it to a nurse to have their kiddo with some crazy unknown first to happen thing. I am so sorry you had this poor boy! Love watching you little boys. I get a taste into something I fear I will never experience, boys in my home :(

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