Meredith noticed this morning that Nathan's splinter was starting to look infected. Since our pediatrician, for reasons passing understanding, can't remove it, she called Children's Hospital as instructed. They evidently thought that this sounded as stupid as we did, but eventually set up an appointment for 6:45 PM at the after-hours clinic in Bellevue. Why after hours? Because during normal hours, your regular doctor could do this ... except that ... bah.
With three people restraining Nathan (doctor, Meredith, and me), the doctor was able to get the splinter out. It no doubt helped that she was probably a lot better at this in general than I was anyway. The splinter was somewhat longer than we'd expected. And she took a sample of the pus that came out, commenting, "looks like Staph."
Oh yay.
So we got antibiotics. Nathan reacted to getting to take that about the same way he did do the splinter removal itself. I thought I might kill him when he managed to spit a mouthful of antibiotic into my eye. Twice a day for ten days. Only nineteen doses to go.
With Adam waking up at 5:15 AM yesterday, then waking me up for feedings last night from 3-3:30, 5-5:30, then again at 7, then this evening dealing with the splinter ... it's been a long day.
Posted by Mike at April 17, 2008 10:14 PM