The sleep rollercoaster and antibiotics

I know that most of you are on the edge of your seat wondering what will happen next to our fearless heroine and her adventures in an unpredictable sleep schedule. Little angel slept for 3 hours yesterday afternoon, and woke up at 7 this morning! She's currently down for what I hope will be yet another 3 hour afternoon nap. That would make three in a row. Who-rah!

In other news, she is starting her first ever round of antibiotics today. She had a boil on her leg this last week, and the doctor wanted to give her some antibiotics just to clear up any remaining infection that might be there. It's apparently overkill, but they said since she was so young they wanted to be sure. I feel terrible; I didn't call for about a week because I just thought it was like a huge zit and would go away on its own. It didn't, and got bigger and bigger, and finally I helped drain it to relieve the pressure (which turns out was the right thing to do). Sarah mentioned yesterday that it was probably a boil, and I did some research last night and figured I should call the doctor.

I apologize for the grossness of this post, but thought it might be helpful to other parents in case they come across something like this - it wasn't even on my radar to be concerned about or call the doctor about! For more information about staph infections (probably the cause of the boil), check out: http://www.kidshealth.org/teen/infections/bacterial_viral/staph.html