Ditching school the first week?

Hunter started with a few sores on his right calf........which quickly spread!

This was about the 3rd day of him having the sores......sadly he had to tell me ..."Mom if they still hurt tomorrow will you take me to the doctor?" We took him to see Dr. Sue, it was a Thursday.............she wasn't quite sure what it was, possibilities....

a staff infection,

chicken pox,

some form of strep.

So she put him on a strong antibiotic and we bandaged him up. She took a culture of it and we were just waiting for the results. She said to bring him back if they got worse or if they spread more.

The redness in his calf started to ease a bit but the sores started to leak out fluid.........and yes they spread.....and so

On Saturday we returned to see Dr. Sue. They were now on his left arm and the back part of his right thigh. They hurt and they were super itchy. This time we saw not only Dr. Sue but Dr. Monthierth as well. Together they decided to put Hunter on another antibiotic, but he was still to take the first one as well, plus they gave him meds to help with the itching, plus a cream to apply. Basically they were trying to cover their bases because the results from the culture hadn't yet yielded any great information.

They were like little boils or blisters........poor Hunter!

We were also instructed to give him baths with Ivory dish soap several times a day. This kind of made up for the itching and pain..........Hunter was way excited once he saw how many bubbles it produced. And yes I helped Hunter strategically place these bubbles........LOL!

He always felt better after a bubble bath and a new bandage job.

This is his calf trying to heal.

So sad to watch him suffer and the doctors still weren't sure what it was. This is the back of his right thigh. It was the worse part..........it hurt him no matter what he did. When he would lay down it hurt, when he walked it hurt.........so on Monday I took him back to the doctor.

This time we saw Dr. Sue, Dr. Montierth, and waited extra long to get to see Dr. Kartchner.

They still were indecisive about what it was......

Dr. Kartchner was guessing chicken pox,

Dr. Sue was sure it wasn't chicken pox, thought it might be a staff infection,

Dr. Montierth hadn't a clue to guess he said.

At this point Hunter's leg was hot to the touch and getting more painful.

Poor guy ended up missing the whole first week of school.

My father-in-law told me to try putting Colloidal Silver on it.

By Tuesday morning Hunter wouldn't walk on his leg, he was in a lot of pain and I was getting super worried.

The doctors weren't calling with the results, the meds didn't seem to be healing it (at least not very fast) and I was stressed to say the least. And we had plans to leave the following day for Flagstaff to have a little fun with the Chicago gang!

I cried with Hunter that morning and told him how sorry I was that I didn't know how to help him!

I started applying the colloidal silver Tuesday and by the next day Hunter felt 100 times better. The sores were drying up but more importantly the pain, fever and itching were gone.

Thank you Grandpa Cluff!!!

It ended up being a type of bacterial infection called Bacillus.

It was a long 2 weeks of sores but I have to say Hunter was one tough cookie through it all!

Glad the meds started to finally work and with the colloidal silver Hunter healed up nicely.

It hurts just looking at it!

And to think we almost made it the whole summer without a doctor visit.........missed it by a few days!