What A Day!

This morning started out as business as usual...

Today at Kyan's school they had planned a "Grand Breakfast" and invited grandparents to come in and eat breakfast with their elementary school student and then head to the book fair to look/purchase books (smart they are). Grandma Donna was able to take Kyan to school this morning and share a pancake breakfast with him before they went to look at books! He was so excited to have her at school with him and she was very sweet and said she was representing for Grandpa Michael, Grandpa Jerry, and Grandma Julie who were able to be there!
Thank you Grandma Donna for making Kyan's morning so special!

Ok, now here is where business got a little crazy and Kyan almost missed "Grand" breakfast day altogether...
Monday evening he had an accident on the treadmill where the #5 speed was pushed without him knowing by someone other than himself and he flew off the back, getting a pretty bad tread burn. We took care of the burn (cleaned and dressed it, then wrapped it up in an ace bandage so it wouldn't ooze out - it took off several layers of skin) and sent him to school the next day (Tuesday). He even felt good enough to do Tae Kwan Do, so he went to that too. I didn't check to see if his leg had started swelling, we were in such a hurry and running late. We came home and did homework and were reading books when I looked at his leg and about died, it was swollen to twice its size! We took off the bandage only to see the incredible bruising and swelling. Any time you touched around his shin area, Kyan winced in pain. He woke up this morning with the swelling down a little and he was able to walk, so I sent him to school with grandma so he could still have breakfast with her and called his pediatrician the second that they opened to get him in ASAP! We started our visit there at 10:45 and she said that he had a horrible skin infection and sent him off to X-Ray to see if his leg was broke/fractured or if the infection had spread to his bones. Before we left, she gave us a prescription and then drew lines around the infection and said that if the redness moves out of that line he is to go to ER pronto!

We got a call from the doc about two hours ago saying that there is no break/fracture and that the infection did not go into the bone. A sighed a big huge sigh of relief as soon as she told me that last part (means no ER visit and IV to target infection)! Now we just have to watch it and make sure the antibiotics work and follow upon Friday with the pediatrician.

Kyan has been a trooper and is hanging in there quite well!