Posted on 06/30/2014 11:06:30 AM PDT by trussell
Just a note to let you all know. My boy was at the hospital today for a bone scan for his JRA and while we were there we thought to have the most recent toe looked at because it isn’t healing like the other did. The doctor took one look and put my boy on 2 antibiotics...one oral and one ointment. He said it was bad and we should make an immediate appointment to see the doctor who did the procedure. So that is scheduled for Friday. Thank you for the continued prayers!
Thank you for letting us know. Prayers continue...
Wow! Talk about being in the right place at the right time! Hope and pray they caught the infection in time!
Don’t they have school nurses who can help him?
The nurse at the school will not even unwrap the toe to look at it or to rewrap it if there is a problem...they say it is beyond their expertise and they don’t deal with that.
then why are they a nurse?
That is a very good question. They give out meds, they take temperatures, that’s just about it. They won’t mess with his toe. He needed some repair done to his tape work and she couldnt be bothered. It was “it will make it til you get home, just be careful”
She is probably limited to what she is allowed to do because of liability to the ISD. I”m sure, though, as she is bound by law, she would have called you or taken steps to be sure he was taken to a hospital if she had felt it was an immediate danger to his life.
My son had a horrible case of poison ivy on his stomach a couple of months ago that calamine lotion wouldn’t take care of. I took him to a nurse practitioner (due to no insurance—thanks Obama!) who prescribed Triamcinolone Acetonide cream. It is a steroid cream and it cost $4 on the Walmart generics list. Just a thin coat 2 or 3 times a day and it was gone in no time.
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