Trip to the ER

I feel like as a parent there is a huge checklist of things you will experience. Every weird/ scary/ amazing thing that happens earns you a little check mark. Well I am now able to check off the "Bring your child to the ER in the middle of the night" box.

The reason I have been bad about blogging lately is that my son has been sick. It started off with an infection, he was prescribed antibiotics and at the end of the round it still wasn't better. So they prescribed another one. I warned them that I was allergic to this particular antibiotic but they did it anyway... you can probably tell where this story is going. At first there were just a few small red dots, it's a pretty common side effect so we didn't think much of it. About a day later he started complaining that his knee hurt. I didn't see any connection to the rash, he is a 2 year old boy I just assumed he fell down or something, but it was bad enough that he refused to walk on it and wouldn't straighten it. Later we found out it was edema caused by the allergic reaction. Then his ears started swelling, if you have ever seen the movie Hitch... yeah it was like that. So now I have a kid who can't walk, cries when he has to straighten his legs, has what have now turned into red welts all over his body and his ears are super puffy. At this point I was still willing to wait it out... but the next night.... His feet and hands swell up to the point he can't put his feet on the floor, he stoped eating and he couldn't sleep more then 10 minutes at a time. I was willing to wait out most things but as the rash started spreading up his neck all I could imagine was his airway closing up so at 12:45pm we packed up both kids and headed to the ER.

Ryan was a champ and answered all of the doctors questions. He didn't cry the whole time, he was convinced the doctor could make him better so he cooperated very well. Audrey thought we were on an adventure and smiled at everyone. We went to a brand new ER that is small but super nice and we were the only patients there so we got all the attention. They sent us home with a diagnosis of serum sickness and an epi-pen prescription. Ryan fell right asleep at 2:00am and is still sleeping , hopefully today will be the turning point. at least we know about the local ERs now, hopefully we won't have to use them again.