Sad moment for Emma....

Remember when Emma was super excited to get her earrings last September??

She was so happy to get them!

Unfortunately, it didn't last long.....

After the six weeks of waiting and cleaning and rotating she was finally able to switch out her earrings.

We bought some for her birthday and put them on.

Later on that day, we noticed that her ear was starting to get red, so we took them off and put the original ones back on.

Slowly, but surely her ears turned for the worse.

It was swollen, black and blue, pus and blood on the back of her ear.

We took her to the doctor, he said it was an infection, gave her some amoxicillan and sent her home.

It helped, but she had this bump behind her ear that would pus and bleed and scab over and repeat itself over and over again.

We have no idea what it is.

Last week, we finally called a dermatologist and they suggested to remove the earrings and see if that would heal her ear.

We did.

It was a sad day.

Emma is actually sick her but you get the idea....earrings gone.

This is what she has behind her ear.  Now that the earrings are off, the scab completely covered her hole in the back.

We are waiting to see if it will heal on its own.

It's a disgusting little bugger, but if it heals, Emma has plans to pierce her ears again come September!

We are hoping that she will be able to keep them. If not, she may be one of the few girls who cannot wear earrings. Not sure why since her grandma, cousins, her momma, her aunts all wear earrings????

Any ideas to what it may be??