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[Teachlady 3]

Wow.. sure is quiet in here today.

[TerriDoodle 6]

I had cottage cheese for lunch!!:present: ....then found a tray of chocolate chip Cookies down in HR :cheers2::bananalama:

[TracyK 3]

I sure am ready for next week to get here...I am ready for some valentines chocolate. I am trying to stay away from candy until then, but my resolve is wearing thin....

[TracyK 3]

I had cottage cheese for lunch!!:present: ....then found a tray of chocolate chip Cookies down in HR :cheers2::bananalama:

omg...were they the crunchy kind or the chewy kind? :heart:

[HeatherO 7]

OMG . . . is Valentine's day next week??? My head must be in the clouds, lol. I wasn't even thinking about it this year.

[Kat817 19]

Got a call while at lunch with Marie from Manda's Dr.'s office, they needed to get in touch with her--her MRSA test from yesterday was positive. She didn't answer her phone as she was coming over the mountain from work and was without service. She got the call within minutes, and is now checking in, and getting settled. I am waiting for her sister (1/2) to show up from school so she can go with me to help with Kinsey. I have been to her house and got her a bag together (hard work since some of it had never been unpacked!)

Please say a prayer for her....and that I can hide these damn hives and get in to see her.

XOXOXO

Kat

[Teachlady 3]

KAT!! OMG...how can it be negative one day and positive the next?? Are they playing games at that hospital??????? Prayers upon prayers for Manda.

[kity 2]

Kat~ Sending love, prayers and purple power so that she responds well to the meds! OMG honey...let us know if we can do anything for you.

xoox

[Kat817 19]

Judy he actually said they would test everyday when she went in for the abradement, because the MRSA is a mutation, that begins often times as another more generalized infection.

Manda is a positive strep carrier, which is really common among RA patients, but he is concerned with the existing infection, plus the new one, and the possiblility of the treatment only handling one of them.

And the underlying concern all along is how close this infection lies to her brain.

I just got off the phone with her, and she was being taken down for a CT scan of the neck, see how much tissue has died or is involved. IV's are in and going strong. When she got the call that it was positive, she stopped at the Sonic and got a BIG drink she said and she drank heavily going to the hospital so her IV would be an easy stick.

Sometimes some inside info helps. Plus she does understand a lot of what they are talking about....and is not one to take crap off of anyone.

In the family picture, she is the one standing next to me. She is about 25 pounds less than in the picture, she was right in the middle of an RA flare and swells like crazy during them. Also in the back with Rick and I are our son and his wife the ones who are expecting again. Sitting in the chairs are my inlaws, and our DD Abbey that just had her baby. She was early pregnant there. And then the grandkids totally ignoring the camera, instead focusing on a remote car one of the nephews was playing with!!!

Got all the bags packed here. As of now she is not in "quartantine" as I call her.....but that is subject to change, she was not in a real room yet, but a temporary situation while they get her tests run, and her set up on IV.

Will check in as I can!

Kat

[Daisalana 33]

I'm sorry Kat, but this is treatable right? Sorry I'm not following along very well, I had to skim through the past 10 pages when I got back!

We went to the bank today and started up a savings account to pay for private school when Carson starts preschool.. weee. It's cheaper if you can pay all at once, vs. monthly payments to the school.. so I figure if I save up all the monthly payments from now till then we'll save money in the long run. Putting enough each month to cover up till 1st grade, and sometime between now and then I'll be making more money. I already am having a record month for January. Normally, it's our dead season and sales go down but I've been going UP.. yay. I have had 2 record breaking weeks in a row.

[TracyK 3]

((((KAT & MANDA))))

I will keep you all in my prayers!!!

[TerriDoodle 6]

Laura - MRSA infections are very serious and sometimes do not respond to treatment. That's what's making Kat so nervous. You can read more here.

I'll be praying for Manda, Kat. I promise.

[TerriDoodle 6]

Kat - honestly -- should you be exposing yourself having been on steriods for so long? Your immune system may be weakened. Please PLEASE be smart and careful.

[Suziecat 379]

Kat, Last night on our shift at the hospital, Hubby and I were sent to ICU several times to take an isolation cart and other things needed. We were there when they brought the person in. I'm not positive but the look of it looked like he also had MRSA. I will say an extra special prayer for her tonight and I will keep all of you in my prayers. Keep your chin up and think good thoughts.

[Kat817 19]

OMG girls the night I have had.....I hate to come here and do nothing but complain and monopolize things, but you just have no idea.

Manda has now got a spot on her leg and one on the right rib cage they are watching. She is getting IV antibiotics, vancomyicin or something, 2 times a day.

So I was stressed with that, and Kinsey was getting antsy, so we come home about 7:30. She ate a bowl of ice cream and wanted a bubble bath, so I had her in the tub. I usually sit on the floor next to the tub with the lap top, and just hang out. She decided she was done, and I reached for her towel and realized I left it on the hamper outside the bathroom, by the linen closet. So I told her just a second, and got up, and turned away to sit the laptop away from the Water, and to get the towel, and I heard her scream. She tried to get out on her own, and straddled the edge of the tub, with the rail for the slider doors and fell! I turned, I was right around the corner, and she was covered in blood from her crotch to the floor. I screamed for Rick, and grabbed her up and rounded into her bedroom and laid her on the bed. She is dripping wet, and pouring blood from inside her. He come barrelling in, and about passed out. I am trying to tell him what happen, and he handed me a towel. We kept trying to stop the blood so I could see what was happening. Finally deciding to just take her to the hospital. Kinsey had quit crying, and was only worried about getting "pokes" at the hospital. So I got some panties that were left here from Lindzie, and were big, and pulled them on over the towel, and got some big jammies, and tried to get them on her, it is 20 some degrees, and she is wet....and then I called her Mommy. I held it together until I had to tell her that I let Kinsey get hurt seriously, she is of course upset, although not with me. Kinsey talked to her, and I checked the bleeding, which had slowed a lot. We decided to give it 10-15 minutes and see if it would stop. It slowed considerably. So I talked to Manda again. To touch her, to clean her up, and for her to walk etc. was not hurting her. So we decided unless it began pouring like it was to wait. OMG the amount of blood was unreal. I know that is an area with lots of blood flow (to prepare for Laura's condition!) and she had been sitting in a hot tub, but nothing prepared this Granny's heart for seeing that. Nothing.

We sat for awhile with her on my lap, and finally I took her and laid her back on the bed, Rick had stripped it....and we removed the towel, and cleaned her up. I cannot see where she cut/tore herself, it is up inside. It cannot be deep inside, but inside out of view. And I was not going to go hunting, which is what I was afraid the ER Dr. woul do. I got her cleaned up, and of all things, I put a pad on her---left over from my TT bandages! She is still oozing a bit, but not much. I gave her a bottle of water and told her she needed to drink as much as possible, so the urine is diluted and won't burn so much. She has actually peed twice, and it makes the bleeding worse, but it stops quickly. I gave her some Tylenol, and she fell asleep in my arms just a bit ago, so I laid her in bed.

I cannot believe how bad it was. Rick is still pale as a ghost, he is in shock from it, I think we both are. She is chatting away and wanting pop corn and being normal Kinsey.

I was right there! If I had not forgot the towel I would have lifted her out of the tub like I always do. But she said when I went to get the towel she heard the phone and thought it was her Mommy and she wanted to talk. It was not her Mommy, and in fact I have no idea who he hung up on....hadn't thought about that til just now!

My poor baby....both of them! Manda's ear is horrible, and she is stuck in a hospital knowing her baby is hurt. And the little baby was hurt.

And now I have finally relaxed and started crying and cannot stop....I am just so thankful she is ok.

I am taking her to see her pediatrician tomorrow, and let her look at it. I know she will be gentle, and Kinsey knows her. Unlike an unknown ER Dr. who may have been rough with her. Manda and I have talked again, and thought this way would be less traumatic for her.

Thanks for letting me pour it out.....again. I am so glad y'all are here.

Gonna go check on her again....only been in half a dozen times while typing this post, she is sleeping soundly......I will check her bleeding off and on through the night.

Rick and I decided tho, that if it starts up heavy again we are calling an ambulance, so we go straight in to ER.

Will keep you posted.

Terry I am being very careful, I don't even hug my own DD, and don't let Kinsey. We blow kisses. And we wash when we go in and out.

But ya know her Dad is worthless, and we are all she has, I have to go.

My head feels totally wierd, lotsa hive bumps! Odds and end ones, I am surprised with the panic I am not a mass of them.....they may be yet to come!!! Hope not.

OMG I cannot believe I let her get hurt like this! I feel like such an idiot. I know to never leave a child in the tub---but the water was draining out....I needed her towel. The poor thing is going to be so sore. She will never want a bath at Granny's again.

I am gonna go try to deep breath and relax....

Hugs~~

Kat