Halfway down the Danube

What's up

So, we had a baby.

But that's not why we haven't been posting! Like we'd let a little thing like that stop us.

No, the problem is that the darn baby went and picked up a staph infection. Staphylococcus aureus, to be precise. Not that this is really all that precise, because staph aureus causes something like nineteen totally different diseases, depending on where and how it hits you. We're talking everything from zits through diarrhea to bone necrosis. In baby Jacob's case, it was skin blisters and green goo in one ear.

This was last week and, just to be clear, we ALL SEEM TO BE OKAY NOW, okay? Jacob has been on antibiotics for a week now. After a day or so, the infection did what infections are supposed to do when hit with antibiotics: it died. He seems totally fine now.

The only tricky bit is, he has to get the antibiotics for ten days straight. And they're administered intravenously, via a large and clunky apparatus that doesn't travel well. (And before you ask, yes, we asked. There Is No Other Way.)

So, Jacob is still in the hospital, and Claudia is still with him. Alan and David are still with the grandparents. And I am still in Romania, alone.

(You might think that being alone would give me more time to post. All I can say is, it hasn't worked out that way.)

If all goes as planned, Claudia and Jacob will finally get out on Friday. I should leave here Friday morning to go get them. And on Tuesday next, we should all be back here in Romania, together under one roof.

Fingers crossed.

Posted by douglas at October 17, 2005 09:45 PM