WRITTEN ON 1/7/09
when chloe woke up this morning i changed her diaper and it was full of blood, she isnt constipated or anything, i called her pedi and they saw her at 10am
by the time we got to the pedi chloe's diaper was again filled with blood and i started to cry. Chloe was screaming in pain as the pedi poked and prodded her poor little butt crack. She has a blood blister looking bubble on the left butt cheek at her butt crack (almost at the top of her crack). Pedi took a culture of it and squeezed the blood and puss out of it and told us it is an absesed infection and is now basically a hole there. He doesnt know exactly what caused it but we think it may we connected with the persistant diaper rash that we have been fighting. Now 3 times a day (or when the gauze is covered) we have to squeeze her owie and then completely cover it with betadine and then cover and tape gauze over it. The culture was sent out to make sure it isnt a staph infection and to basically see what type it is. She is on oral anitbiotics and a topical antibiotic plus we have to continue using her script for diaper rash cream because her rash was also bleeding when we got there (which it wasnt when we left the house)! She has to go back friday for a follow up appt to make sure that everything is ok. she was running a slight fever when we got there. She gained a whole 6oz this month and is now 19lbs6oz and grew 1/2 an inch and is now 27in long. and on top of it all she is cutting her first tooth so she is a complete bear. sigh, my poor baby
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