So Monday night, Charlie decided to make life just a little more exciting by having his head swell up from his jaw to his eyebrow. Off to the ER we went. He slept through most of a CAT scan, didn’t blink when the nurse drawing his blood had to fish for a vein repeatedly, and bravely took the world’s most painful shot in the thigh — awaking him from a dead sleep. He came thiiiiis close to being admitted. His head was crammed full of pus from a massive sinus infection.
You can’t really see the swelling in the above pic but, below, you can better see what remains of it after four days of antibiotics. It’s gone down a lot and he’s starting to feel much better. He still can’t really chew much so he’s been living off of applesauce and whatever else he can gingerly chew.
And, yes, we’re still here in Oklahoma. Don’t ask. I promise you I’ll say bad words if I have to tell you about it. Just a few more days….