We're steadily working our way through obscure ailments this week - having just spent a couple of days on the children's ward with dd2 (who can't walk due to joint inflammation caused by flu) this morning I got to do my daily hospital trip with dd1 instead, who had a spot on her finger which overnight developed into a whopping abscess with a very textbook red line going up her arm, and swollen lymph nodes on that side. Her finger is purple and swollen to twice its normal size.
She's been prescribed oral flucloxacillin and needs to go back to the A&E follow-up clinic tomorrow, she's fine in herself and back at school now.
Can you please reassure me that this will go away with the antibiotics? And that ds isn't going to break a leg / develop an ailment requiring urgent attention at the weekend, thus ensuring all of my children get to attend hospital this week?
Can't believe it's nearly the Easter hols. There's always been at least one child with something wrong here since half term.