First Night in Paradise

I wish I could tell you this amazing love story off the title of this post. But unfortunately, it wasn't really paradise at all. We got everyone headed up for showers our first night in Paradise (the town name) and Erica came down to tell me a bump behind her ear was growing by the hour and her ear hurts when she touches it still. Mind you, this had been going on for about two days and started in NYC. It looked like a pimple to me and I told her it had to run its' course. Well, her whole ear was bright red and swollen. I washed her ear and tried to burst the pimple but nothing was coming out. So we cleaned it and Scott took a look at it and she went to shower. Next thing I know, Scott is googling a few things and she has the symptoms of a staff infection. Surely not ...... but neither of us could get comfortable with letting it go as we watch her ear swell so at 8pm, Scott is headed to the Lancaster HOSPITAL of all places on our first night in town!!!! AAAAHHHHHH!!!!! Erica is not very cool with the idea at all and seems to think they might remove her ear .... again, we remind ourselves she is 12 years old and this is very normal....... short story ends like this, Yes, it was a mild social staff infection and needed ointment and antibiotics. Yes, we caught it before it got worse. Yes, the bump was her gland trying to fight off the infection. Yes, it has been drama for four days now when she has to take a pill after refusing the liquid antibiotic. Yes, I am being punished for every time my mother tried to make me take pills and I screamed and cried over it. Yes, she is better. Yes, she picked this up in NYC which we have affectionately renamed "the petri dish of America." Will we ever go back? I just don't think so .......