Mursula comes to visit

oh the joys of MRSA. few months ago we were in the hospital with Theia having emergency surgery to clean up her abscesses, spent a week stuck in quarantine and it was terrible. and that was actually her second occurrence.

i thought we were pretty much in the clear, it's been several months and she hasn't been having any issues.

few weeks ago claudia got a pretty gnarly spider bite on the back of her thigh. it turned into an abscess but we got it cleared out manually and it wasn't a huge issue. anyway, two days ago i see the beginning of a pimple on her buttocks and didn't think much of it till i check on it last night and see that it's bigger than a grape now (mind you most of it is below the surface, but i can tell by feeling it) and it's rock hard.

so i start to work on it knowing that it really must be drained regardless of it's origin. ended up gettting a huge amount of puss out but since we weren't sure how it got there, having had no contact with funky spiders in the past few days, we decided it must be looked at by a doctor just to rule out MRSA so we can confidently send her to school.

well of course seeing the doc on sunday night means a fun little trip to the ER, OH JOY!!! it actually wasn't that long of a wait, which was nice. the doc pretty much stated flatly that with MRSA now being our new super-cold, they treat all skin abscesses as though that's what they are. however, unlike theia, whose abscesses were very extreme and the infection much more advanced, in combination with her being much younger, claudia was allowed to leave the hosptial and he said she'd be fine to go to school as long as the sore area wasn't going to be too uncomfortable. well, it's on her butt cheek, so we decided to stay home.

i'm sure she'll be fine soon, back at school tomorrow, and back to work for me. it's just this annoying little part of our lives, this stupid infection that rears it's ugly head periodically. like Ursula the sea witch, so i've decided to call it Mursula. from now on if we have an occurence again, i'll just tell people "Mursula is visiting again..."

funny thing that we haven't even been here for 6 months and we've already had all our kids in the ER. nice...