Jax had his share of needles on Saturday.
It started with our morning appointment to re-check the infected knee.
The doctor examined the painful area and then left the room.
He came back with a syringe full of numbing liquid and what looked like a turkey injector needle to drain the fluid and infection.
Jax got a concerned look on his face and said, "you're not going to stick that in my knee are you?"
The doctor replied, "if you want to save your knee I'm going to have to stick it in there!"
I laughed, because that's what I do in inappropriate times.
The doctor gave me a stern look and said, "this isn't anything to laugh about. I am serious about this issue."
My eyes were bulging from my head and my heart wanted to run out of my body!
Poor Jax!!!
Poor Jax!!!
OMG!!! Poor Jax is all I could repeat in my head.
Jax handled it all so well.
The doctor gave us another antibiotic to add to the first one given to us the day before.
Then he drew more dots around the knee and instructed me to immediately take him to emergency if the redness expanded and Jax continued to be lethargic and feverish.
Six hours later and we were driving to the E.R.
[don't worry Paula....I left out the truly graphic pictures]
The nurse hooked Jax up with an I.V. full of strong antibiotics and then prepared a surgical tray.
The on call doctor gave Jax another shot of numbing fluid and then cut open the bursa [a fluid filled sack] to drain the infection.
Jax laid with his eyes closed in a meditative state and didn't even shed a tear....even through his fear.
The doc packed the incision and gave us instructions to return on Monday to have it re-evaluated.
Jax is already feeling much better.
His fever is gone and I can see energy filling back through his body.
He still has a hard time putting pressure on his leg, but I think he is healing well.
Nobody deserves to be poked so much in one day!!!
Luckily Jax is a strong, brave boy.
And because of my extreme sympathy and feelings of failing him as a mother, I have babied this kid by letting him live off of ice cream for two full days!
Sometimes ice cream heals ALL the pain :)
3 comments:
Poor little guy. That infection can come from anywhere. I think he had Mersa. Icecream cures everything.
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Thank you for not including the gnarly pics of the drainage crap. Ugh. Poor kid. What a crack up you are Jolie.....How could you leave out the part about the text you sent me earlier that day????? "Jax is getting his knee drained and then he has volleyball." I LMAO then and I still am about that text. My response, "Jolie-Jax is getting his knee drained. Is he really going to volleyball?" Kind of like "I'm really healthy except for all the smoking and drinking I do." You are SOOOO funny and you don't even know it.
I'm glad it's doing better. Hopefully the hole in his knee will close up before the end of his volleyball season :)
Paula,
That is too funny!! I texted the same response when Jol said they were going to his knee appointment and then volleyball.
I wrote "volleyball??"
It is true Jol, you are damn funny:)
So glad Jax is doing better and am so thankful he didn't lose a knee!
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