The morning after...

Well, the girls finally stopped talking at midnight and then resumed playing at 4:30 a.m.!!!!!! They had their fill of chocolate chip pancakes with Audrey winning the eating contest by eating 4 pancakes.

Slumber Party Extravaganza

To celebrate Carli's 8th, yes 8th, birthday she invited four friends over for a slumber party. The screaming began as soon as all the girls arrived. They are all so excited. The funny thing was that Pearl was right in the mix with the big girls. All the girls brought their American Girls. They ate pizza and cake and settled down in the basement to watch a movie. Finally quiet for a short time. We will see what the rest of the evening brings us!

Pearl's 2-year check up

This morning we visited the pediatrician for Pearl's 2-year check up. All is looking good (especially after last week's drama!) She weighs 22 pounds, 31 inches in height and head circumference of 44.9 cm. From her 18 month check up that is a 3 pound gain and 2 inches in height.

She also got two shots. She was calm for most of the visit but was saying "bye-bye" to everyone as soon as we got there.

The hospital bills are starting to roll in...for the first emergency room visit lasting 4 hours, the bill was $3500! Eric and I are taking bets on what the two day hospital stay and the ambulance ride will cost.

Back to normal

Pearl is pretty much back to normal and so the girls spent the afternoon playing with the dollhouse Carli got for Christmas. Even Mickey got into the action.

Update Four

We are HOME! And we have some answers. Essentially a staff infection entered through the shoulder scratched area. Her body basically went into Toxic Shock. The doctor told us that if Pearl had not gotten to the hospital when she did, the outcome could have been very different. Pearl is on antibiotics for the next five days and we just need to watch her.

Update Three

Pearl has really dry skin and has scratches and scabs all over her body from scratching. Even though she was given a double dose of anti-scratch medicine, Eric said she scratched all last night. Pearl has an area on her shoulder about 4 inches long that she has scratched until it bleeds, it then scabs over and she scratches it again until it bleeds. The doctor now thinks that the infection entered from this area. But again, we need to wait until we get the cultures back today.

Our regular doctor has already visited this morning. We are now waiting for the hospital doctor to visit. It will be key for Pearl to keep down her breakfast this morning in order to start the process of being released. But those culture results seem to hold the key.

We are off to the hospital now.

Update Two

Carli and I just got home. Pearl still has her fever and rash. The nurses are giving her two antibiotics. She ate a great lunch but then threw everything up and so we were not able to go home tonight. Hopefully tomorrow the skin culture and the throat culture will be back and the doctor will have more information for us on what is going on. Eric is spending the night again at the hospital.

The good news is that she kept her dinner down (although she did not eat much) and her disposition is really good. Carli was sitting and playing with her and Pearl was smiling and talking. Hopefully we will all be home tomorrow.