Update on Connor

Connor is doing well.  The catheter came out last Monday and we all were happy for that.  Connor is now walking much better and is getting back to being Connor.

We had a slight scare prior to the catheter coming out.  Our pediatrician diagnosed Connor with a topical staph infection.  He prescribed an ointment that would kill the MRSA staph.  (We were instructed to see the pediatrician by the surgeons nurse because the surgeon was out of the country at the time.)  So, we put the ointment on the “staph infection” as prescribed by the pediatrician.

When the surgeon saw the area that had developed a rash and we told her what was prescribed, she was not at all happy (with her nurse or our pediatrician).  So, my question (which I did not ask her) is why don’t the doctor’s call one another after such surgeries?  I mean they always ask for the primary care physician.  Why do they do that?  Just for sake of asking???  One prescribed something the other did not think was necessary.

Anyways…to make a long story short.  The surgeon said the rash was because we were applying too much of the original ointment and the area was to moist.  She said it was not a staph infection and was not MRSA.  She told us to stop using both ointments for 2 days and to give baths only.  She said after a couple of days the rash would go away and the repaired area would look MUCH better.

She was right!!!!  What a difference a couple of days made.

So…it was not a staph infection and Daddy/Mommy have learned to question everything the doctors tell and prescribed to us.

We have to continue with the baths for the next 5 weeks.