Emergency Room Visit

Well, we had a very productive weekend this weekend. Chris took the day off Friday and flew home Thursday afternoon. Thursday and Friday we worked hard on the house. We changed the Dinning room light fixture, installed new hot water heater and outlets and switch in the utility room, and put carpet down. Outside, we cleaned up the pool ( the boys actually went in for a few minutes, but the water was a little cold ), got a load of dirt delivered to finish the pool landscaping, and burned another big pile of the tree we had to cut down. By Saturday morning I was feeling a little under the weather and was close to useless buy Sunday morning. After sleeping all day Sunday I am feeling much better although not 100 percent. Saturday morning Russell brought Caden to show me this weird mark on his arm. There was a big red spot by his wrist about 2 inches long and one inch wide. I assumed that it was a reaction to being bitten by some insect while outside playing. So, off we went to basketball games. After the games we went to the park for a picnic of fried chicken etc. . . We spent about 2 hours eating and playing and then left. As we were leaving the park we noticed that Caden's red spot had started to blister up -- how weird. We immediately went to the store and bought ointment and wraps for his arm. And, of course, called my father ( the kids call him the walking book of knowledge ) . We talked to Grandpa and he seemed to think it might be a staff infection and we should go to the Emergency room to have it looked at. Caden and I went on our first visit to an Emergency room sans Tri-care. Boy was I nervous about the $$. I checked in and the nurse told me it looked like a burn. I told him there was no way it could be a burn and we proceeded to wait for the doctor. The wait was not too long except that even 30 minutes in a room with no toys and no books is an eternity to spend with a tired yet active 15 month old. The doctor came in -- never touched Caden -- looked at the arm from 5 feet away and told me it was a burn. After grilling me about all the places he could possibly have burnt himself only to find that none of those were actually possible in Caden's case, he actually suggested that Caden must have wandered off to a neighbors house and gotten burnt over there and they just brought him back. I went off. First of all my 15 month old does not just wander off on his own and even if he did he would have to miraculously figure out how to open the gate and walk 100 yards down the road to the closest neighbors house. Then, the Dr. told me he was at a loss. Couldn't figure it out must be a burn or some rare reaction to some insect bite. Go home put neosporine on it and wrap it up. Come back if it gets worse. All, of this cost me an hour in the ER and $100 out of pocket. It is now Monday, and the spot doesn't look worse but it is definitely not better and my pediatrician can't fit me in until tomorrow. Now I get to go pay more money and spend more time in a doctors office. House update, we placed an offer on the house we like on Friday and received a counter offer Sunday evening. Originally we wanted to stipulate a late closing around the end of May so it wouldnt interfere with school. The realtor didn't think that would fly, and then I realized Chris would be at Natl Guard Annual Training the last 2 weeks of May so we said how about 10 May. In there Counter offer they said ok to early May but wanted to rent the place from us until end of school. Haha. How funny. We want nothing to do with renting it to them, especially since they arent willing to pay even as much as our mortage payment would be on that house, so we are asking to push the closing to June. Appearantly that will work better for all of us. It also gives us time to sell the FL house before getting hit with 2 mortgage payments at once. We are all excited about the new place, but are also anxiously trying to figure out how to get all of our stuff up there ( 3 motorcylces /with trailer, a dune-buggy, mini-bike, Lincoln Navigator, fifth-wheel with truck to pull it, Chris' old truck, Chris' race car -- Datsun, the 1970 mustang and last but not least Rusty's sailboat. The stuff in the house, 3 kids and 4 dogs are the easy part. HAHAHA