Outta Here!
We’re going on vacation tomorrow, so no more bloggy summer camp until I get back. I have had a hard time keeping up, obviously.
As a side note to yesterday’s entry about college, I have to mention chapel (mainly because Heather brought it up). We were required to attend chapel two times a week my first three years. They had this crazy attendance system with cards and people standing in doorways. My senior year they added another chapel day, but it was a small group chapel, so you had to go sit around with 10 people you didn’t know, plus a faculty member and bare your soul. It was just about as awful as it sounds. Sometimes we had required evening chapels as well.
Though the school was very conservative, there was one speaker who was even too much for our student body. I don’t remember what he was preaching about, but he was a very special speaker that the school had engaged for a whole week. The first day over half the student body walked out. Most of us used up all our abscences skipping his week, though in the end I think we were all excused because we complained about having to listen to him. I can’t remember what he was talking about, but it must have been pretty bad if he could crack through our thick shells.
We also had several required religion classes, of course.
I worked for the chemistry professor. He also taught Science for Religion Majors, so I spent a week re-typing his self-written text book. It was pretty interesting. He taught the day-age theory and divine guided evolution. He was also quick to say that the Bible was not meant to be a science text book.
Ok, I need to go finish packing. We`have to get up at 5:30 am.
Here’s a repost from FB about Elsa for those who didn’t see it there:
Elsa finished her round of antibiotics last Monday. By Friday she was feverish and in pain. There was no way to know if it was related to the Lyme or a whole new set of problems, so I went to the doctor to hope someone smart could tell me.
The doctor didn’t know either, but prescribed 10 more days of antibiotics. She also told me to be on the look out for meningitis, which freaked me out.
Over the weekend, it became obvious that Elsa just had a cold. Erik also had a fever for a few hours and complained of a sore throat. Elsa ended up with a cough. Her gag reflex is very well developed and when she would cough hard she would throw up. We had a great few nights, as you can imagine.
She was supposed to have a well child check on Monday, so we went in. They ended up not doing any of the well child things. Instead, they swabbed her throat for strep, took a urine sample, and debated doing a chest x-ray. She also had blood work done to confirm the Lyme at the request of the infectious disease specialist.
We met with a pediatric infectious disease specialist this afternoon. The results show that Elsa definitely had Lyme, but we caught it very early. A big thank you to my FB family for encouraging me to take her in!
The doctor really set our mind at ease. She believes Elsa just has a cold and not the lingering effects of Lyme. She says the treatment for Lyme is 100% effective and we don’t need to worry about meningitis or anything else. Good news! And we can stop this second round of antibiotics.
However. The doctor had one last thought before we left and wanted to confirm we had been given the right concentration of antibiotics.
It turns out our original amox prescription was for 250 mg/5 ml. This is too low for Lyme. She needed to have it at 400 mg/5 ml.
That means we have to start all over again. Fourteen more days of antibiotics. Which is fine and all since she is taking them well and we want to be sure. It just sucks because we thought we were not going to have to take them on our trip.
In good news, though, the doctor says this is strictly a precaution and she does not believe we have any reason to be worried about any progressive symptoms of Lyme so she wants us to be calm and happy and enjoy our vacation.
Maybe I just need to become a germ-o-phobe and start slathering Elsa with Purell every few minutes. The kid catches everything that comes our way. I’m sure if she would eat more and a better variety it would help.