Growing Up

my luck is such that on the day I'm to go back to work, after 3 days of vacation that I take Katina to the walk-in clinic, and now have to keep her home for a few days.

Here's how that works:

At the beginning of last week,she helped me make a batch of chili. She's gotten good at opening cans and was opening the cans of tomatoes and kidney beans.  Unbeknownst to me, she got an itch on her chin, that she decided to scratch with the lid of one of the cans, resulting in a small scratch.

The scratch looked like small scab on Tuesday when she went with her dad to St. Louis.  Last night, when I saw her in the car seat, I almost fell over.  The scratch was now about the size of a twonie crossing one side of her mouth, and moving down the chin.  It was yellowish and brown coloured with obvious red underneath. And apparantly this was an improvement!!!   We cleaned it well last night, and she slept for many hours after a busy active week!! 

This morning, it still looked very ugly and so off to the clinic we go.  IMPETIGO was the verdict.  The Dr. was some concerned about the oozing and said no school for at least 4 days!!  Oral anti-biotics, and topical ones prescribed.  She is contagious (which is just what I need given my skin issues!!!!), and has to be away until the sore stops oozing.  When we got home from the clinic, we soaked the worst of the scabbing off, and applied the topical anti-biotic.  It already looks a world better.  I'm hoping to get away with only keeping her home a couple of days.

zagatto has managed to adjust his schedule to help me out, so I won't miss too much work, which is awesome as always.  And he'll make sure he lets all the other kids, K was hanging out with last week, know just in case!!!

Meanwhile, she's bored silly, watching way too much TV ...and bugging "mommy" to do something with her besides work.!! 

Ah well, it's given me time to do more laundry...!!!