A “Gift” From Tennessee?
We had returned home from our Spring Break trip on Friday morning, the 25th. That Saturday Stacy started noticing bumps appearing on her hands and elbows. Sunday morning the bumps were showing up on other parts of her body and starting to turn red, almost like a bad rash. She decided to take herself to the emergency room to get checked out. They thought it was bed bug bites and prescribed a cream and steroids. James and I were fine. Stacy is the only one that got bit.
By Monday morning it was continuing to get worse, so Stacy found a dermatologist that had an opening to see her. The doctor was pretty certain that it was not bed bugs, but some sort of viral infection, and prescribed an anti-viral medication to take in addition to the cream and steroids that the ER prescribed.
The one thing that Stacy really wanted to do was to soak in a bathtub. Unfortunately, because of our bathroom renovation last summer, we no longer have a bathtub in the house, so we had to improvise. I ran out and bought an inflatable pool. We may have to consider renovating our other bathroom, removing the shower, and putting in a bathtub, but for now, this inflatable pool will be fine.
Fortunately, by Thursday the bumps/rash had pretty much disappeared.
Easter Canceled
Last Sunday we were supposed to have Easter dinner with Stacy’s family, but because we didn’t know what Stacy’s bumps were, and if they were contagious or not, we decided to stay home.
James
This blog is supposed to mostly be about James so I can’t have a post without him in it, can I? Stacy kind of took the spotlight away from James this past week with her own issues.
There really hasn’t been much to report on James, though. He came home from school on Thursday with some new artwork that we’ve proudly hung up on his art wall.
He thinks he’s a lamb…sweet, cuddly, and quiet…but this past week or so he’s actually been quite cranky and irritable. He’s also been a bit congested. We took him to the doctor yesterday to see what the doctor thought, and he put him on an antibiotic as a precaution.
That’s all that going on with James right now.
