Emily's ER trip

We have had a lot of people call, text, and ask about why Emily went to the ER Friday night. Here's a brief.

Friday night I was giving her a bath and noticed a red spot behind her ear. I didn't think much of it but about an hour later when getting ready to put her in bed I noticed the entire side of her face was red. We took off her jammies and she had hives and a rash all over her entire body. Robert wanted to take her to the ER and I agreed. We met Robert's parents at the ER and they took Chase. By the time we got there her face was completely swollen and she just looked terrible. We gave her some benadryl and it improved only slightly. We were unable to determine the cause since she hadn't eaten anything different, no change in soap, and she hadn't touch or done anything unusual. The doctor gave her an epi shot and she began to improve immediately. He also wanted to put her on steroids for five days. They gave her a dose of steroids at the hospital and she immediately threw up all over herself, me, and the floor. Awesome. Naturally I was excited to have to go through that every day for the next five days. But she was thrilled that she got a new "dress" to wear home. It was really just a hospital gown but it had elephants on it so she was happy.

The final determination was that it was a freak thing and could be related to the illness that she has been battling for over a month. I guess her immune system is a little out of whack. She has been battling a stomach virus including throwing up, little appetite, diarrhea, etc for over a month. (I'm exhausted!) So we're chalking it up to a virus. Anyway, we put her to bed that night and she woke up in the morning with the hives back and this time covering her ENTIRE face. Kind of scary looking on your two year old. They came and went for about three days. She still has some spots that are very slowly going away but luckily no new spots are popping up. The worst spots are on her back. This picture was taken this morning. We're now on day 6 of these things and they're still hanging around.


So all in all nothing major or life threatening but another thing to deal with in a month that has been full of illness in our family. I'm beginning to wonder if we'll all be healthly at the same time ever again!