It has been just over a year since thegrandson was hospitalized with a flesh eating bacteria. But at that time, the doctors, and there were many, all told us that if any skin ailment would present itself - to immediately seek medical attention.
Yesterday, thegrandson grabbed his ear and screamed that his ear hurt (exterior), and when I looked at his ear, it was quite red and to me appeared to be sunburned. We put some salve on his ear before he went to bed, but he had a terrible night and could not sleep because of the pain. When I got up this morning I realized that thedaughter and thegrandson had NOT left for school and something was amiss.
Thedaughter made an appointment at the doctor's for 11:30 am, and she had to call off work (that's another story in itself) in order to make this appointment.
Since baseball practice began last week, we both were assuming that it was a sunburn from the three days of practice. Realistically, the sun was not warm enough to cause any sunburning on any of those days, and the doctor made that observation. The ears are now blistering and the doctor has prescribed some more lotions, but says this appears to be a chemical type burn. Egads...we have no clue how that would happen.
According to the doctor, it could involve picking an item up, and then wiping his face with his hands. Again, no clues here. I am checking with the neighbor, as he was playing on their new gym set, and possibly the wood has been treated with some chemicals.
At the present time, there are white blisters appearing around the edges of his ears and he is plain old miserable. When the little guy hurts - I hurt!! He will go back to school tomorrow, but there are precautions involved. When these blisters pop, a secondary infection is possible - so playing in the dirt is out of the question for the moment. With Spring here (except for snow tomorrow) recess time at school is played outside - he will not be allowed to participate at this time (poor baby.) Time....it will all just take time and patience, and all will be well...I hope.
Theson's package came today from the SomethingStore.com. Apparently one pays "X" amount of dollars and you receive a package, not knowing what will arrive. I took pictures of all the contents and forwarded those pictures on to theson. I just want to thank theson NOW - for all MY new stuff!! After he has seen the pictures, I will post them here - so if anyone is interested in ordering from this place, they can see the quality of the products.
Back to work for now...everyone behave and play nice today. I may be back later today or just.........later............
