Infection follow up

As you can see the redness and swelling hacer subsided since our post yesterday.  Thank goodness our Mia woke up this morning feeling better than she did yesterday. We saw the dr at 8 this morning and he was also happy to see Mia doing better.  The shots of antibiotics that they gave her yesterday will last for 24 hours and he decided she should be okay with oral antibiotics for now rather than more shots.  She has an antibiotic to take 3x a day for the next 10 days.  However he is very concerned and why this infection is happening and the underlying cause of it.  He thinks it's unusual that she's had this malformation for her entire life and now all of a sudden this infection.  Mia lost another 2 lbs over these last few days. We are praying that she recovers quickly and that we can figure out the cause of this so that it doesn't happen again. 
Thanks so much to Hallie (Noahs friend) for brightening Mia's day with this kitty and some chocolate covered raisins (one of mias favorite).

Infection..cont

Infection

The last few days Mia has had a lot of pain on her forehead & eye and some bleeding from the malformation on the roof of her mouth. Yesterday while she was at school things started to get a bit worse. In the afternoon the school nurse called me to say Mia was in a lot of pain and wanted to go home.  When I got there to pick her up I noticed that her forehead & eyelid were red and swollen.  Mia said it hurt to touch or move her face....as the evening went on her face became more red, swollen and was warm to the touch.  When Mia woke up this morning it was even more red & swollen and  she was running a fever well as feeling sick to her stomach. We called her drs at UW who instructed us to try to get her in to see her pediatrician so that she could be treated faster. The pediatrician was able to see her this morning. He was very concerned with the infection ...he said this type of infection could get into her blood stream and even go to her brain, so we needed to treat it aggressively. The Dr ordered for her to have her blood drawn and then she got 2 shots of antibiotics in her legs (2 nurses did it at the same time so that it would be over quicker). Mia got pretty pale and sick after blood draw and shots,  once she was feeling good enough to get to the car we headed home.  The Dr wants Mia back at his office tomorrow morning at 8am so he can check on her. We are home now and she's been resting on the couch.  She hasn't been able to sleep or eat much the last couple of days, so I'm praying the antibiotics work for her.