Aiden and I had a pretty eventful day. Aiden woke up just fine after sleeping all night long. However, by 10am, we made the trip to Tulsa to Children's Hospital. The Urgent Care Center was closed, so we had to go over to the big people hospital for their emergency room services. It never fails, I will spend at least one holiday a year in a hospital.
Aiden broke out with a rash from his head to his diaper area. A serious rash. He has never had a rash. NEVER EVER.Not even a diaper rash.
Being as how this was a mysterious rash, we were seen pretty quickly in triage and then we were quarantined. We had to sit in a little tiny room (which we're used to the humongous room with tons of monitors). The doctor came in and took a look. He was shocked, but knew right away that it was an allergic reaction to something.
Aiden has hives. What, we don't know. Aiden hasn't ate anything new. He hasn't been introduced to anything new in the last 12 hours. It seems I have cursed him yet again. I am allergic to more things than I can count and break out in horrendous hives. The rash doesn't seem to bother him. There is no itching; well, he isn't scratching anything. Aiden's poor little body is covered in this rash. His front, back, neck, even scalp.
The doctor prescribed dye-free Benadryl and the nurse brought Aiden some in a syringe (insert howls of laughter here) to which Aiden immediately showed everyone how he does not like to take medicine and decided to projectile vomit more than 3/4 of the contents from the syringe that was in his mouth onto the floor. The nurse went to get more Benadryl. She came back and said that another option was to give it to him in a shot. I opted for the shot. I didn't really want to sit in the ER until Aiden finished a bottle full of Benadryl. The doctor must have thought I was mean, because he asked if I was sure. "If Aiden doesn't want to do it the easy way (orally), then he can do it the hard way (injectable) and keep the medicine down."
We were then discharged following the injection, which by the way takes 3 people to administer. One to hold Aiden's body down, one to hold his leg still, and one to actually give the shot. (Low muscle tone, my foot!) So I signed the discharge papers, put the prescription in my purse and we left.
Only to realize that NO pharmacy is open today. Luckily we have grape flavoured Benadryl at home. I'll go to Wal-Mart in the morning. Of course, we have to watch to make sure that the hives don't get worse or what not. If so, back to the hospital for steroids, IVs, and all that other good stuff.
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