Yesterday, I was called by Cambria's daycare regarding her eye. It was extremely swollen and she kept rubbing it. I knew that a mosquito had bitten her in the corner so I figured she was allergic to the insect bite. When I picked her up, her eye was almost swollen shut and appeared like she had been hit!! Well, I erred on the side of caution (and because she also had a bad diaper rash) and took her to the med clinic. We don't have a pediatrician here yet since we've been here three-four weeks all of which has been work, work, work. After 3. 5 hours at the med clinic we found out she has cellulitis. It's common form of bacteria is staph. So, her insect bite reacted with her skin causing cellulitis. Add in that she's also in daycare and there's other possible contributing factors. They gave her a general antibiotic shot as well as took her blood (in both arms!!!!). So, we are having a sick day today since she cannot return to school just yet.
The picture was taken after she had had a dose of Benydryl! So you can imagine how it looked before!
