Friday morning Drew woke up and said he didn't feel very well. I looked at his face and it looked like his pink eye had come back. I called the school to let them know that he wouldn't be there and made him some breakfast.
10:02 am
About an hour and a half later he said his lip was starting to get fat. It did look a little funny, but I wasn't too concerned about it.
10:06 am
I was amazed how quickly it really started to puff up. At this point I called the doctors office and made him an appt. They were able to get him in pretty quickly, so I threw in the bath tub and that is when I noticed that he had welts all over his body. And also there were other parts of his body that were swelling. Not just his face.
11:23 am
12:30 pm
While at the doctors office he was checked to make sure he was getting enough oxygen and that his breathing wasn't effected, and we were still pretty stumped.
We were given some steroids for him to take and on our way to the store to get the prescription when he started noticing the pain. While we were at Walmart he was in so much pain. I talked to the pharmacist and she told me that I should give him more of the medicine than the doctor prescribed for his first dose and then go back to the directions on the bottle. She said it would help bring the swelling down faster and take some of the pain away.
2:44 pm
The swelling started going down and he seemed to be in less pain. We had plans to go down to Salt Lake that day, but they had been up in the air with all of this, so we finally decided to just go ahead and go.
4:14 pm
While on the drive home he was pretty out of it. He slept for most of the way down and we could tell he was pretty miserable. We could see some of the swelling going down, so we thought we were on our way to free and clear.
When we got to Bountiful we met up with Vaughn's parents and his brother for dinner. We had a nice dinner and a good visit and headed over to Vaughn's parents for the night. When we got there we checked the rest of Drew's body to look for swelling and welts and we were shocked to see that some of the swelling was not going down and that it was even worse! He said it was still very painful and started crying. We weren't sure if this would just resolve on its own or if we needed some sort of other medication. We decided we better not risk it and headed into the emergency room at Primary Children's.
When we checked in and told them what was going on we were taken right back. The charge nurse was very concerned and took us to an actual room. Our nurse came in and was so sweet. (Found out that she was born in Jerome!) She took some information about Drew and then left. A few minutes went by and finally she came back with two doctors and a pharmacist. They were all just as complexed and said they were calling in the on call specialist.
While we were waiting Drew watched a slide show from our Disney Cruise on Aaron's phone. He had come with us to offer moral support and he did a great job. The slide show kept Drew preoccupied. Finally the on call doctor came and she was just as perplexed! She said that she needed to consult with her attending and left the room. While she was in the hall we could see her pacing back and forth. After about 20 minutes she came back in and said her attending was just as perplexed, but he wasn't as worried about it, even though he had never seen anything like it before. He said that the swelling would go down and told her what to prescribe him. So we were sent home just after 1 am Saturday morning with the specialist's pager number and told to page her if we had any more concerns or questions. She also wanted us to page her the next afternoon just to check in and let her know how he was doing.
Finally back at Grandma Hixson's and so tired.
He had had quite the week. He has never been to an immediate care center or the ER and he hit them both within a week!
So we have racked our brains all day as to what could have caused the reaction and the only thing we think it could be is Quaker Oatmeal. Usually I buy just the store brand of instant oatmeal, but at the last case lot sale it was the Quaker that was on sale. We think it was either the cinnamon in their brand or maybe a preservative or a dye. We also think the pink looking eye was probably part of reaction he had from the day before. He had had the oatmeal as a snack after school and by bed time he said he was itchy. So Vaughn gave him some Benadryl and sent him to bed. He probably had a reaction while he was in bed and we didn't notice it or the Benadryl took care of most of the swelling.
I just wanted to note how impressed we were with Primary Children's. They were completely awesome with us and Drew. When they saw our address and noticed we were from out of town they were even more accommodating! They kept asking if we had a place to go or if we needed a place to stay. They even said that they would admit Drew and keep an extra close eye on him if we were worried about taking him far from the hospital. All the nurses were awesome and the doctors we fantastic! I am so glad that we went there and got the peace of mind that they gave us. We probably would have been ok by not taking him in, but it was so worth it to be able to rest easy and to have a pager number of a great doctor if we needed anything, anytime!
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