Our first week at the Johnson's has been one full of fun, horror and sickness!! Maddie has been a little fish since we got here! She is loving the pool!! The dogs are loving staying in the house. We have been taking them out on walks but at about a half mile they are seeking shade because they are not use to the heat. Scott has been enjoying his class because it is really laid back.
All of the fun started when we got here! Jay was covered in poison when we got here from hiking the mountain with Pap the week before, so he had to go to the doctors. Scott came home for the weekend from his class really sick and spiked a fever of 103 Friday night. I wanted to take him into the hospital then but he was stubborn and wouldn't go. Well, that night Shelli showed us a scorpion from the garage so we knew what to keep an eye out for. That night I got up to pump and when I picked up my pump bag. I got stung by a scorpion twice on the tip of my finger!! It hurt 10 times worse than a bee sting!! I woke up Shelli thinking it was poisonous and that we would have to get to the hospital pronto! Thank God scorpions around here are not poisonous!! I went in and cried to Scott. I took some
Benedryl, some
IB Profuen and took an ice pack to bed with me. Shelli slept with me all night because I was so freaked out (Scott slept in Elle's bed because he was sick and his coughing was keeping Maddie and I up). The next day I shook out all of Maddie's and my stuff. Our clothes, shoes, my pump bag, and her diaper bag and sealed everything up so I knew no scorpions were going to be able to get into anything. Scott thinks I am being way to paranoid. The sting only hurt for 48 hours but it was the worst pain other than child birth I have ever felt. Shelli offered to put the dead scorpion in a bag for me as a
souvenir, I declined and told her it could stay in the trash.
Saturday, I was going to take Scott into the ER, but we slept in and then he didn't want to go. His fever was only 99.2 during the day. We took the dogs for a walk, went fishing and spent time with Maddie and the Johnson family. That night however, his fever was up to 102.7 so we agreed that we would head into the ER the next morning. Sunday morning we went to the hospital and checked in at 10:45am. At 3:30 pm we were told Scott had pneumonia. They gave him an injection and some
antibiotics and discharged him. Shelli met us at the hospital so Scott could head back to the base and Shelli and I could head for home. By the way when I talked to him today he said he was feeling much better, just tired.
Monday Jay went to work and went into the doctor and learned that the sore on his back was a brown recluse spider bite. Me being the sicko that I am was excited to see it after the doctor had dug out the dead tissue. He has to go back again on
Wednesday but the doctor says that it is healing well.
I am sorry I haven't posted pictures in a long time!! I will have to upload some in the next day or so. Maddie has really grown since the last time I posted pictures! I promise to get some up by the weekend at the latest. Hopefully this week at the Johnson's won't be as exciting for the Croyle family!!
