Brooke

Well, since my last post we have had a whirlwind of issues at our house. My little girl Brooke has been diagnosed with MRSA Staph. The doctor is telling us it all is connected to the pneumonia she had twice last month. About 3 weeks ago we started noticing what looked to be a diaper rash. We had the dr look at it when we were at her check up and he said it was just a yeast diaper rash. Well, last Friday she had a spot on her thigh that started out looking just like the rest of the rash but had almost tripled in size within a couple of hours. It was very red and painful. We took her back in and that started a mommy's panic. The dr told us it was a staph infection and to put a topical cream on it. It got worse by Sunday and we were back in the dr's office. This time he put Brooke on an oral antibiotic. Still not much change and we were back in his office on Tues. This time he took a culture and sure enough it came back positive for MRSA. We have managed to keep her out of the hospital because she is responding to the oral medicine. She has to be on antibiotic for the next couple weeks and the knot under the skin may be there for another two months. Her immune system is way down so that is another concern. We have had so many payers and are very thankful to everyone for thinking of us and offering to help out any way possible. We are very blessed in so many ways.

Thankfully, Allison has managed to stay healthy. She is getting so big and is so funny when she is trying to take care of Brooke. I only wish I would have been able to get her on video when she was trying to help Brooke walk last week. It was very comical. She was holding Brooke's sore leg and telling her to hop on the other. She is such a good big sister.

I think for the time being that is all I have to report. I know i still need to add some pictures.

Kelly