My Baby was mauled! (Oh, and the first day of school!)

My poor Brynleigh! All she did was love too much! Is that a crime? I think not! Bryn got up Saturday morning and walked into the boys' room where Samson (my sisters' dog, who we've been dogsitting for) was getting some shut-eye. She didn't want to disturb him, but she couldn't help it. She just had to give him some lovin'! (Kind of like that cartoon where the little girl says,"I wanna hug him and squeeze him and love him like this!" And the poor animal is squeezed nigh unto death!) Well, Samson was o.k. for a brief second (Let me reiterate the word BRIEF) and then he went Nutso on her face! I called Kelvin to come home and he took her to the doctors' while I waited at home (Tanner needed a ride home from a Football scrimmage and I didn't know when he was gonna call) The doctor said that he couldn't put any stitches in because if he closed the wound up with them then she would most likely get a really bad infection. Unfortunately it could affect the nerve endings that are right where she was bitten, and she could be paralyzed in that area. I've been terrified that she would get an infection since then. But it looks like the antibiotics are doing their job. Yesterday, her face looked like it was a little more swollen and red, so I drew around the area with a pen and in the middle of the night I checked to see it had gotten worse. (I know. Smart, huh? I can't really take credit for it. I saw someone else do it in the hospital for a snake bite on TV) It wasn't worse when we checked later, so we're really grateful.