smaller battles

Emily's tootsy

One of the scariest aspects of SOJIA is that the medicine controlling it also suppresses Emily's immune system.  I read posts and blogs of different families dealing with this and there is always one thing that plagues the child.  Emily has been battling ingrown toenails.  This will be her second case of both big toes getting infected.  Normally you could just wait it out, but with a weak immune system she goes right on antibiotics and if those don't work they increase the dose.  After two weeks we're now going to go to a pediatric podiatrist to see what they can do.  There are lots of small battles to fight with SOJIA.