Lilah - Hospital Day 1

Lilah was admitted to Fountain Valley Regional Hospital on Tuesday, September 9th. She had a white-head pimple on her upper lip that showed up on Sunday and just progressively got larger and more irritated. By Tuesday morning her lip was swollen, very red, and the left side of her face was swollen. I (Jody) took her to Prompt Care where they expressed the pimple, pushed out all of the unwanted liquid and then sent us home with antibiotics. In a matter of 3 hours Lilah got worse. The left side of her face swelled up even more and her left eye was closing due to the swelling. We took her back to the doctor where they asked us to come here to the hospital and have her admitted. After waiting 5 hours in an ER room (thankfully we got a room and didn't have to wait in the waiting room), and having her blood drawn 3 times plus having an IV put in, we were transported to our own room.

Lilah was put into isolation because her white blood cell count was at 27,000 when it should have been at 10,000. This basically meant that she had a very serious infection going on. The doctor was 99% sure that it was a staph infection. Cultures were taken and blood was drawn and sent out... now we wait.