Screw this....

Seriously! We've had a rough couple of weeks around the Owens household. It all started with a few spider bites on Cadence. No big deal, right?! Well, I'll get back to that later. On the Thursday before Halloween, Cadence managed to find a screw that her Daddy lost. Apparently a tasty little screw because she ate it. The screw was a 1/2'' long and the head was a 1/2'' in diameter. As she was choking, Steve knew exactly what she had found. So, off to the ER we went for x-rays. Luckily, all went well and the screw had made it to her stomach. Here are the pictures I snapped with my camera phone.
The next day, the screw made it's appearance back into the world. Moral being.... all things that go in will eventually come out. (Sorry, I had to make light of it!) Halloween was a rough day for Cadence. She really wasn't feeling well and I figured it was because of the screw. (It went in black and came out silver.) My thought was....great, lead poisoning? My Mom and Aunt Joann came to Houston for some shopping. So we toted my sick little girl all over town. We even rounded out the Saturday by going to the Renaissance festival. (Steve and some our friends were camping out for the weekend.) By nightfall, Cadence had started running a fever. I gave her Tylenol and we headed for home. To make a looooong story short.....one of those spider bites was on her bottom and it had abscessed. I tried to get it to go away at home but ended up at the Texas Children's Hospital by Monday morning. They had to give her some heavy anesthesia so that she could handle the pain of them lancing it. eck. Definitely not something I want her to go through ever again. So, I've been doctoring a hiney for days! It's almost healed and so far, so good.