Thursday, August 7, 2008

Snaps for doctors

I want to go see the new Mercy Hospital but I didn't expect to see the ER. Jonathan got hit by a softball the end of May, no big thing, he had a bump and a nice sized bruise but it went away. Last Wednesday he told me it started to hurt so he made appointment to see our Doctor. That afternoon his leg swelled up, got really red and hot, and he was running a fever of 103. So that night we went to the ER because Jonathan could barely walk on it. So they checked him in, took some blood and then gave him a IV with some antibiotics. When the doctor came in he said that Jonathan had cellulitis (it's a infection of the deep subcutaneous tissue if the skin.) So after the IV was done they drew on Jonathan's leg and told us it the redness goes past the line to go see our doctor right away or go back to the ER and that we needed to see our doctor the next day for a check up. So we had to see his Nurse Practitioner, because our Doctor was on vacation, she looked at his leg and gave him more meds. After that it looked like his leg was getting better until 5 p.m. he started to get his fever back and the redness went over the line. So I called Jonathan's parents to come over and they took him back to the ER and the Doctor there gave him more antibiotics and then sent him home and told us to see the Nurse Practitioner again, so we did and she got another doctor in there and he thought it was not cellulitis it was a blood clot from the softball hitting his leg so we had to get a ultra sound and a doppler on his leg. They didn't find a blood clot but they did find fluid. So, we had to wait until Monday to find out what the infection was. So Jonathan gets a call from the N.P and he has MRSA (it's a type of Staph strain, it's resistant to antibiotics.) So August 12th he has another appointment to see our Doctor and ask questions about the MRSA infection. Oh, first they thought it was a bug bite that started this whole thing and it wasn't the softball. And  now they think it was because of the softball. So that was our fun trip to the ER and the Doctors office. 
Snaps for Doctors and Nurse Practitioner. 

Here is a picture of Jonathan's leg the 2nd to the ER

1 comment:

Brittany said...

oh my goodness...keep me updated...i will be praying for you guys!!!!