Leah had never really physically recovered since the D&C, specifically her hand issues that we discussed in the baby blog. The morning of the miscarriage, I snapped these pictures of her hand.
Fast forward to Thanksgiving - she just wasn't feeling good. Her hand was swollen and her back was in pain (we had been told the back pain was postpartum/hormonal.) She had also developed a warm, firm swollen area on the posterior hip area. Our families convinced us to go see a doctor the following day. Ate breakfast with Aunt Judy, Rebecca, and my mother at the Eastern Shore Cafe (yum) and then toted the wife down to the Emergency Room. Probably 20 different people came into the room to look at Leah's afflictions and ask her the same questions over and over...until it was decided that she needed to go into surgery.....again. The doctor informed us that she had an infection of some sort and needed to get it all out. We spent the next 3 days in the hospital while she received strong antibiotics to treat this mysterious disease. She also had to get a blood transfusion because she was anemic. The blood culture came back this morning....Strep. That's right, the same Streptococcus that gets into our throats. I found that the necrotizing fascitis affected her pinkie - and after looking at these pictures, it could have been much worse and is a very scary thought.
To make a long story short, we're finally back home after a long weekend. Leah will be at home for the next couple of days - maybe we can snap some pictures of her gross wounds.
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