Still in the hospital...but now we know...

After having a major party up here yesterday, today seems pretty quiet.  Yesterday was the telethon for the UNC Children's hospital which is why we have a million pictures of Gabi and all these famous people like country western stars and Santa Claus.  Life was so fun.  We even went to two concerts.  They asked Gabi if she wanted to pull the sheet off of something during their big unveiling ceremony and she said, "No way!  Too shy!"  We never did hear what they unveiled.  Her siblings would have jumped at that chance!  :)
Today Gabi was scheduled for surgery so they could scrape out her wound.  Ugh.  But when the skin doctor came he said he was not going to mess with it, so no surgery.  Mom told the skin doctor of her non-medical trained diagnosis and guess what?  The doctor said that mom was absolutely RIGHT!!!  Wah-hoo mommy!  We are going to continue on these heavy duty IV antibiotics for another 24 hours then we are going to try to move to oral antibiotics...then HOPEFULLY will get out of here on Sunday afternoon.  These meds make her have "red mans syndrome" which means her face and neck get bright red.  So they also have her on Benedryl to counteract that.  We kind of put up with it because those meds have to be the super strong ones.  When we move to orals then there will be no more red mans. 
So here is the story...this is a strep infection.  You and I get it in our throat, but Gabi gets it in her skin.  She may continue to get this, but now that we know what is causing it, this neurotic mother can hopefully get her on meds at the first sign of a sniffle and avoid the hospital.  Not only does she get it on her skin...but she gets it right behind her ear that had surgery earlier this year.  That is another reason to be super careful.  If we aren't careful that strep infection could spread to that ear and then we would lose the ear completely. 
We really thank God for giving us such smart doctors to help us with a plan of attack.  We also thank God for giving Gabi the courage to have her blood drawn WITHOUT being held down today!  There was only a little bit of screaming this time!  Yeah! 
So after I said it was quiet here today, I went down to get some mom lunch, and I left the room for a whole 15 minutes.  During that time Gabi had the UNC football team in here.  I hope this type of behavior doesn't continue!  Gabi said..."It wasn't the WHOLE team, mom.  It was only like 12 of them."  There you have it.  The Lacross team followed...pompoms and popsicles.  Life is good.

Gabi and Beary have been through everything together this year.  He's a good friend.  Her new bear...she named Sky.  She thought that was the best name to go along with the dog she got from here during the hospitalization in August.  The dog had been named Cloud...so now we have Cloud and Sky.

I don't know if you can see this, but she painted a picture (of this little boy) for the little boy in this room because has to be isolated so we feel sorry for him. You can maybe see that he is in the crib, and the picture she painted of him has the same outfit and everything.  :)

In this picture she put the hunter hiding in the tree with a gun so he can shoot the turkey for his Thanksgiving dinner.  Lovely.

We LoVe NurSe TaYLoR! <3