Periorbital Cellulitis

Yep. That's what he's got.

The early AM was a tad bit frightening here .... C arrived in our bedroom with a completely swollen shut left eye. He was not happy, to say the least. I was actually quite nervous from the difference between last night and this AM (after reading what it *could* end up becoming). Called the ped - the best thing happened, much to my relief - HIS ped answered the phone. In we went right away .... again, to my relief, and S's, Dr. McG was calm (so not surprising) and felt that is was PERIorbital and his eye itself was fine, good movement, good vision, and the infection looked like it was oral antibiotic ready.

The likely culprit was his own hands .... when he went to the nurse for his "itchy" eye, he was consistently rubbing what was probably nothing. Nerves from the wounded heart probably caused him to perseverate with the scratching of the *nothing* that was there, and he left a germ or two on his skin turning into an infection.

His poor heart. :-(

Back to today ..... so, we went to the pharmacy, got the meds (holy smokes .... these are antibiotics different than what we've seen before! $246.00... thank goodness for prescription and medical insurance, the copay was far, far cheaper!) and we are now home .... C wanted to go to school to say hi to the teacher, grab his spelling quiz so that I could give it to him at home, and turn in his homework. This is his first and only absence from school ever, so not going likely felt odd for sure .....

He saw his posse, and of course, they were very attentive to him - "please C, please stay, dude!" :o) How cute is that? But he didn't want to stay ... so we're hanging out playing some games, and getting ready to make peanut butter kiss cookies.

So, send us your get well vibes, if you have any extra just hanging around ... we'll be hoping that is stays PERIorbital and just goes quickly away ....