So By Sunday morning she looked awful! it was swollen red and green and was just spreading. Monday morning I call the pediatrician and we go in on Tuesday for a look. The immediately say get to a plastic surgeon. She has growths under it and it is infected. She needs surgery on her face and it needs to be done soon. She gets an antibiotic and off we go. The referral takes a day or two to get and so we wait. Got the referral and call the doc nooooooo they will not see her for that kind of thing. So its calling doctor back time. They have no idea what to do so they recommend I get all the numbers to plastic surgeons and call to find one that will see her and then we can go to that one.
I get on the phone and pretty much luck out. No one will see her. My mother in law (the best) decided to help me. She takes the same list I have and we start from opposites ends and call each one. I finally got one that will take her on Monday the 10Th. My mother in law calls back and says "man you were right no one will see her" It was funny though she called the same doc I got into right after me.
So Thursday comes and Alyssa's face is really bad but we have no appointment until Monday. I call both the pediatrician and the plastic surgeon and both say go to ER this can not wait. Both offices told me to have them call a plastic surgeon in that would be on call for the hospital.
Friday morning I take the kids to school and take Abbey and Alyssa to ER. They pretty much look at me like I am crazy and say they have no surgeons at all to call. The doctor took one look and said" I will make some calls be right back"! With in 5 minutes they had a name of a doctor that they personally spoke to and will see me right now. One down fall it is in Deer Valley! So off I go with my toddler in tow to this doctor. We arrive at about 11 am and wait and wait. By 12:15 the receptionist comes out to tell me he can not see her! She is not covered by this doctor. I was fuming. I just asked and double checked that they did before I drove 45 minutes out here. The doctor personally told me to come not an office staff so I said let me talk to the doctor. He told me to drive here I want to talk to him personally. They told me he only is covered in ER. Ok I will go there then. The doctor comes out and I convince him to see me in the Hospital. He agrees.
Off we go to Paradise Valley hospital. We go there at 12:30 and wait and wait with toddler in tow mind you. At 4:20 the doctor finally arrives. He definitely has to do surgery on her but will do it right there. YEAH!!!!! They numbed her up pretty good and took alllllll the Dermabond off and scrapped all infection out. He cut out the growth that was under and got it a clean wound. They then stitched it up. It looks sooooooo good. It was about 1 tenth the size and was a clean line with 6 stitches. We were sooo happy. Off we go home finally.
Saturday morning she wakes up with a small rash around her sore. No big deal until Saturday night when it has spread. Sunday morning the rash is completely covering one side of her face. Now we still had the appointment from the first surgeon on Monday anyway. So Monday I took her back there so that we could figure out what this rash was. It is the worst rash I have ever seen. Her entire half of her face is one huge red hot cluster of bumps. They think she is allergic to the ointment we put on it. Basically do nothing and stop everything that we were doing and leave it.
So that's where we are now. We go back on Friday to get the stitches out. i will update again then.
