Infection lands Grandbaby Cloud in hospital!
 

:sniff: My 2-year old granddaughter is in the hospital right now on IV antibiotics. Her diagnosis is cellulitis, an infection of the connective tissue in skin, which can also sink deeper into the lymph system and bloodstream, caused by staph or strep.

She was sick all day Friday, laying down and not moving. She had been running a fever, but the rest of the family (Dad, and the other 3 sisters) had had a virus the week previously, so they didn't think much of it. It wasn't until late Friday night that they noticed her neck was grossly swollen (where her lymph nodes are).

Anyway, please send your healing thoughts to Jayden Cloud.

Very sorry to hear that Cloud. I hope the antibiotics clear it up quick-smart.

I assume she is at poorly enough that the hospital doesn't phase her - by the time she starts perking up she should be used to the routine.

Best wishes to you & family.

Hope she starts feeling better soon, Cloud. Keep us updated!

Oh poor babes :( I hope she's well very soon.

oh, our thoughts are with you and yours. there have been reports of a string of staph infections popping up in ari-ma-zona.

Wow Cloud, I'm sorry. Sending positive thoughts your way.

Staph breakout here too. best wishes

[ot] ha! there's another brit word that you don't realise is one until you've been here a while. They always say "sick" here. When we first moved to Michigan, I just thought that it must be a particularly bad year for gastric flu because everyone was sick (to a brit, "sick" usually implies barfing, or in hospital on deathbed. Poorly means fever/infection etc.) oh yeah, Brits wouldn't say fever either, unless the temperature required medical attention (104+). For anything below that, you'd just say they "had a temperature" :lol:[/ot]

Thanks guys. We're just waiting to see if see responds the antibiotics. It's scary, because you never know these days.

Poor little thing. They gave her morphine last night when she was admitted, before strapping her down and doing a CAT scan. She has a splint-like thing on her arm, to hold her IV'd wrist immobile.

*Monster, that was interesting. I did not know that about "poorly" and "sick."

it's hard to be sick at any age, but two must be the worst. Old enough to understand what you want to say and what people are saying to you, young enough that the sicknes just knocks it out of you. :(

Poor little thing. I hope she's doing much better by the time you see this cloud.

Another quick aside - I was amused by the Leicester term "on the sick" if someone was off work ill. Even for one day, "Sorry she's not in, she's on the sick!"

And I'd never thought about the fact we don't say fever - you're quite right. I was running a temp of 104 and was sent home from school and all Mum could do was complain that they sent me home in a taxi! I certainly didn't have a fever as far as she was concerned...

Good news is she seems better this morning. Her temperature has stabilized, and the swelling has gone down a lot . She's still kind of out of it, but she rested well last night and woke up with a smile, so I'm cautiously optimistic.

Excellent, just wonderful!

There is nothing like having young ones in the hospital, I am thinking of you and yours. Sending much love.