Streptococcus pneumoniae & MRCA

This morning we took Logan to the Infectious Disease doctor (who was wonderful) she took her time looking at his ears and talking to Christopher and I both about everything, and after much pushing & screaming (from Logan of course) we sat down and she told us that he his left ear is inflamed and has a lot of puss and infection in it (which explains the horrible smell). She called it Streptococcus pneumoniae which is "thankfully" the most common cause of bacteria in adults, children and even dogs. They changed his medicine again for the 2nd time this week and order a blood test. Taking the blood tests was not fun. I unfortunately had to leave and go back to work, so wasn’t able to stay for my poor baby boy during this dreadful time, but my wonderful husband did the dirty work for me. He called and told me that they had to draw 5 vials of blood (EEK!!!) and that Logan cried the whole time but then again who wouldn’t!! After drawing the blood we talked to the doctor yet again and she proceeded to tell us that if this didn’t go away or if we couldn’t find the problem to what is going on that he will be on house arrest for 8 weeks, which means…no daycare, no church nursery, and no McDonalds play area (which we never go to anyways), but thankfully we aren’t there right now. Logan would be absolutely miserable.
Well I got back to work, and then around 3 pm I received a phone call from the ENT office and they tell me that they just received the culture back from when he came in on Monday and they found MRCA which is a horrible staff infection that is really hard to get rid of, that unfortunately my Grandmother ended up dying from.
Yeah, talk about FREAKING out!! I was also told that we will need to pull him out of day care for a couple of weeks until this cleans up. Not sure where he will go as of right now, but this just hurts my heart. He is such a social little boy, and enjoys spending time and playing with his friends, and I hate that he won’t be able to be around that for a while. She did say that if we wanted to, that we could take him to the park to play with friends since it is an outside setting, but still….
So for all of you that have been praying for us, please keep praying!! This is such a hard thing to hear, especially when it is about your kid. It’s hard to see them suffering and in pain. I know that God will take care of us and whatever his will is, will be!