Following on from our fantastic weekend it was back to earth with a bang!
Beau my 11 year old grandson was so looking forward to starting his new senior school and we had prepared for this, we went shopping for new pencils, pens and school bag bits. He had his new uniform all ready and was getting very excited at this new phase in his life.
BUT just 2 days before he was due to go off on this big adventure his knee was hurting, it was quite badly swollen and so his Dad took him off to the doctors. The doctor took one look and sent him to A & E. They in turn took swabs, xrays, blood tests and decided to keep him as an inpatient.
Beau had scratched a gnat bite on his knee and as with all boys dirty fingers, he had infected the bite.
That led to an operation later that day. The surgeon had to make a large hole in his knee to dig out an abcess and drain lots of nasty poisonous fluid away.Poor kid was in hospital overnight with pain killers.
When he came home the next day he was told he wasnt allowed to go to school. He was devastated! So plans were put in place to carry him to his tutor room in school on the first day of the new academic year. The school agreed he could be present for just 2 hours to meet everyone, get his registration and meet his new class friends. Well that didnt work out either!
Overnight the knee became even more swollen & painful and so a phone call to the hospital meant a drive back there. He had got MRSA! a very nasty highly contagious disease in the actual wound! In fact the whole family and his friends who were with him during the previous 48 hours may have to be tested too! So more blood tests, more pain killers, more draining of the poison in his knee and more bandages. Luckily, it is a mild case and self inflicted and is just in the wound so we dont need testing. Now he is off school for at least 2 weeks, he can use the leg/knee but has to have it cleaned and dressed every few days by a nurse who comes to the house.
He has to go back to the hospital next week and get a further prognosis. So the moral of the story is this..........watch out for dirty little fingers, think before you scratch.
