Peyton Lorie

Well, we are out of the hospital. It was an interesting 24 hours to say the least. Now I know why mom always says she doesn't care if we get hurt, but she is not taking us to the Emergency Room. Hopefully I don't have to do that again for a LONG time. While there, we had a whole team of Dr's that were called in just for her. They came in around 7:45 and did a culture swab on her face by scraping it with a scalpel and putting it onto a couple of slides. I had to hold her down the whole time and another Dr held her little face. Then she fell asleep in my arms from about 8-9:30 when the Dermatology team came in to check her. They wanted to do another culture and so I had to hold her down again while they carved into her cheek to get a "good swab". I thought it would have broken my heart to hold her down, but I was in the "fix my kid" mode and wanted whatever they needed to do to have her fixed and know what it was. Around 11 we were finally given a bed and we took her up to Pediatrics. I stayed with her through the night and she slept ok. She woke up a couple times when the nurse came to check her vitals. At 9:30 I left to go home and take a shower and try to sleep a little and around noon Lance called to tell me they had been discharged and were waiting for me to pick them up.
The good news is that she does not have MRSA at all. The bad news is that she has the Herpes Simplex 1 virus, which is pretty much cold sores that errupt on her face. We aren't sure how she got it, but it does run in Lance's family. We can give her antiviral meds, but only if we catch it in the first 48 hours. Otherwise, she has to just let it run its course. We feel so blessed to finally know what it is and know how to treat it now. Thank you all for all your prayers and thoughts. We would not have been able to have done it without all your help.