There is no such thing as a "fashionable" lift shoe

[the left knee is twice the size of the right knee thanks to great parenting!]

Three days ago, Jax came home from school complaining of his knee hurting.

I didn't really listen to him.

"oh....uh huh.....hmmmmmm.....it will feel better soon"

I'm not sure why I rarely take these kind of things serious.

Maybe it is from so many years of jumping to their every sniffle and realizing after a $25 co-pay that a sniffle didn't mean death, it meant a dust particle flew up their nose!

Thank goodness Jax's school nurse took the knee problem seriously because if not, we could be dealing with a knee-less child right now people!!!! 

Can you imagine?!?!?!

We would have to get him one of those 'lift' shoes to compensate for the short leg.

And let me tell you, I've nevah seen a lift shoe that didn't say "gimp-o-la" all over it!

ugh!  I just can't even go there!

The nurse drew a pen mark around the inflamed area and called me to say that I would need to take Jax to the doctor if the infection looked to be spreading beyond the ink.

The next day, I gave Jax two Ibuprofen and sent him on to school.

'eh, you're gonna be fine!' I said.

I picked him up at the end of the day and he didn't look well.  He fell asleep in the car and immediately went to bed when we got home.

After a little rest he came to me with the knee blaring heat and black ooey gooey stuff seeping out of a pore.

The redness was waaaay beyond the drawn circle and he was begging for me to release the pressure of the pain by squeezing out the infection.

I squoze until I couldn't sqeeze no mo!  Then I gave him a hot pack and sent him to bed.

This morning he came to my room at about 4 am crying.

The knee had a heartbeat of its own and apparently an internal inferno too.

I bitch slapped myself aware of how bad this really was!!!!

WTF am I thinking????

Yah....don't worry about nominating me for mother of the year!

I've already applied for mother fuck-up of the year and I'm pretty sure I'm in the top three contestants for this one!!!!

I made the first doctor appt. of the day.

The doctor had concerns right away.

I won't bore you with the blah blah's of it, but it comes down to 

Jax's knee has cellulitis.

Jax was given some horse pills to take 4x a day, and a second check up tomorrow morning which may entail IV antibiotics.

The kid can barely walk!!!!

I have nothing more to say.

Shame silences me.