Back to the blog! These have been hectic days, although at the end it seems like there is nothing to tell. B is done with school, and all but two grades are in, and hopefully by tomorrow, they will all be known to us. So far ::knock wood:: so good, relatively speaking. This will be a restful week for him, he just has a take-home test for the volunteering position he has applied for at the hospital to complete, and he has until next week to do that.
M has one more day of high school (tomorrow!) and then three days of finals, during which she hay have to take one, or not. The teacher is dragging out telling them whether or not they are exempt, because I think he knows they have mentally checked out already. However, the top ten are set for graduation, at least they have been at practice, and M has a spot amongst them! So that could change if she has to take this final and it has a negative effect on her grade!!
As for me, I have been trying to get into my job and still am having a hard time. It's hard to manage when some of the things I do don't get taken to the next step, and then I'll be asked to redo work weeks later because now it's time to revisit. It's difficult to explain, but I will just say that I am happy I like the people that I work with and leave it at that!
And in other news, M gave me another scary lesion fright this weekend. On Friday I noticed a dark spot on the crook of her arm, and realized that it was a big red boil surrounded by bruised skin! Then she told me she had shown the nurse at school, who had treated it with benadryl spray! So I called around and found a covering pediatrician who would see her that day. We had tickets to Cirque de Soleil and I couldn't risk it being a scary MRSA outbreak!
Anyway to make a long story shorter, the doctor couldn't get anything out of it to culture it and decided that it looked like it would be able to wait a day. So she had us come back the next day and it looked a lot better, although now had a head so she was able to culture it. But so far, we have avoided antibiotics and it does seem to be healing. And I'll have those culture results by mid-week. It alarms me to think that she's prone to these things and I will have to send her off to college with the wits to choose which of her arsenal of creams and lotions and washes she should use for which type of condition. It's really a science; and you have to catch them early and treat them immediately at home. I'll have to set up weekly Skype sessions to make sure she's taking care of herself!
