I feel so badly for my littlest man. He just passed out on the couch. He's had a rough couple of days.

Last Friday at dinner I noticed that Christian's left eye started turning red. It was a late night, and he had been rubbing his eyes so I assumed it was because he was tired. The next day - Saturday - that same red eye started to get goopy. Then Sunday his right eye started getting goopy.

I thought he might have pink eye, so I called his doctor on Monday. Unfortunately they didn't have any appointments available until Tuesday morning - fine. He would be seeing Dr. Zaglin at 9:30 a.m.

Later that day (Monday) I noticed that he had a bump on his pubic area. It looked like a small pimple. Since John had gotten staph several weeks earlier, I know what the beginning signs look like. I pressed the bump and noticed that it was starting to harden. I immediately cleaned it, and covered it with a bandaid.

I kept a close eye on it all day Monday, and started giving Christian Motrin because I know how painful these things can become. By Monday night the entire infected area was hard (about the size of a dime). On Tuesday morning it had gotten extremely red, but it didn't look like it had gotten any bigger.

Before we left to go to the doctor I noticed that his left eye was no longer red, and that neither of his eyes were goopy (thank goodness, must not have been pink eye). However he is teething so he now has a low grade fever, and a horrible cough **insert eye roll**

At the doctors office Dr. Zaglin inspected Christian's infection and said that he is 90% sure that it is staph. He had me hold Christian down while he squeezed it to see if any puss would come out. I felt so horribly for Christian. He was in so much pain. We have to go back today so that Dr. Zaglin can look at it again. There is a slight possibility that it will need to be drained.

I had mentioned to Dr. Zaglin that John is still recovering from his bout of staph (almost 3 weeks later). He requested that I get the culture results back from John's doctor to see if John was treated for MRSA. It turns out that he was **insert frown** So there is a possibility that Christian has MRSA **insure HUGE frown with teary eyes**

Dr. Zaglin gave me a verbal high five for spotting this infection so quickly. He said that most parents aren't aware of what staph looks like and wait far too long to get treatment. He said that because I caught it so early we're able to treat it aggressively, and things should be okay.

So lets recap...Friday night Christian had a red left eye that started getting super goopy. On Saturday his right eye started getting goopy. Between Friday and Monday he also started a low grade fever and horrible cough - which made sleeping nearly impossible. Monday I noticed a staph infection that hardened to the size of a dime by Monday night.

He is now on antibiotics for his staph as well as a combo of tylenol and motrin for the pain (I think we'll be sticking with tylenol as it is easier on the stomach. Last night we gave him motrin as well as his antibiotics and he puked all over John). He will probably be put on more antibiotics once Dr. Zaglin hears that John had MRSA.


BTW...I hate that MRSA sounds like Marisa...just sayin'.