Romans, Ryan and Reasoning

The kids all enjoyed camp this week. Every day they would come home and tell me interesting things they had learned. I have lots of Roman crafts around the house and new swords all around. Perhaps Ryan's most memorable part of camp though will be the bee sting he got. He stepped on a bee Tuesday morning and just had a bit of swelling and itching. I gave him Benedryl, put some anti-itching cream on it several times a day and he was good to go.

Then Friday night he got out of bed and told me he couldn't sleep because it itched so much. I pulled off his sock to put on some cream and was quite surprised to see this red streak going down his foot -- which hadn't been there just a few hours earlier.

Before Ryan went back to bed I drew a ring around the line to see if it grew any during the rest of the night. The line turned out to be totally unnecessary, because when he woke it was obviously longer. It had reached around the side of his foot and was headed up the top.

Naturally, Ryan and I headed over to the ER. The doctor said that there is an infection along the vein where Ryan was stung. He now is on a round of steroids and antibiotics, in addition to the Benedryl.

Now for the reasoning part of the post. The doctor told me to keep Ryan lying down, with his leg elevated and to apply warm compresses. Ryan asked what warm compresses were and the doctor told him it meant warm water. So Ryan told the doctor he could just go swimming because the longer you stayed in the water, the warmer it got.