We ate at a really yummy lil bakery-they had a good chicken salad sandwich and, of course, jake is satisfied as long as they have crackers-I know, picky.
I tried to get some pics of the witches around the village but the lighting wasn't great...
I couldn't pick one cause these were all so cute and totally out of character for jake to smile-I think I broke his smiler in his first 8 mo of life cause he hasn't had the patience to look up and smile lately.
there's a lil water feature near the mill and a cute bridge to take you over to some other stores.
there is a rich out on a raft on the river but you can't really see it.
a firefighting witch blasting the roof over the bridge.
Later that night Liz stopped by for the night and Code got a much needed haircut-yes, that's hair not a small dog... (it's crazy how much hair he has...)
All and all it was a great Friday night which was good cause it needed to makeup for the following day.
So Saturday started out like any other saturday. The morning went smoothly, everything was normal, and then I was making lunch for Jake. I thought to myself: man, I feel bad that the only sandwich Jake gets is a cheese one-he likes it, but I'm bored for him. Then I realize hey, he's over a year we can try out peanut butter now. So I make him a peanut butter and honey sandwich and cut it up all small for him. He took his first bite and seemed to like it and proceeded to eat 2 or 3 more quickly, but then after a minute or 2 started crying which isn't normal. And it wasn't a fussy cry like when he doesn't like a food, this was a "I'm in pain" kind of cry. I take away the remaining pieces and start giving him plain bread and water to wash it down but he continues to be upset. He starts to rub at his eye and since we hadn't trimmed his nails in a lil bit he scratches himself (not to where you could see/or it bled) but whatever was on his fingers def made those scratches swell up, like when I do when a dog scratches me.
My heart sank. Crap. He's having a reaction. within 10 minutes he has some raised bumps around his eyes where he's been scratching and it's all red. I run to walgreens to get some children's benadryl while code looked up on a pediatric's site what the proper dosage was. Once we got home and gave it to him his face cleared pretty quickly. I knew it wasn't over tho, cause he had eaten 3 or 4 pieces with the peanut butter/honey and that had yet to go through his system yet.
Sure enough 40 minutes later once he had started digesting it he got big hives and a general red rash all over. He was so miserable trying to itch himself. We had already given him benadryl so there wasn't much else we could do. I was watching him close though ready to run him to the ER should he have trouble breathing etc. I read online that anaphylaxis is rare in infants (prolly since this is their first exposure and it takes a few to get that bad). It was scary and I'm general the one to freak out and over react/assume the worst when these things happen, but for some reason I felt calm and felt that we should wait it out. This being NOT like my usual MO I trusted it and that God was helping me to know what to do.
We got him to eat a little and he was really tired from the meds so we put him down for a nap (checking every so often) and when he woke up the hives were down a bit. 5 minutes after he woke up he threw up. This was probably a couple of hours after he ate lunch. At first my reaction was to freak out but then I felt calm again and felt that that's what needed to happen-his body was getting rid of what was causing the problem. After he threw up he seemed to feel a lot better-was more interested in eating/drinking etc. By dinner we gave him benadryl again and his hives were completely gone and his red rash was only on a few places on his body/not all over like before. He was acting more like himself now-laughing and playing so I started to relax. We checked on him throughout the night with a flashlight but he was always sleeping well with no signs of the hives returning. He woke up clear this morning with only a light speckly rash around his elbows/knees so we gave him some more benadryl, but he seems to be nearly fully recovered.
It was definitely scary, but at the same time I trusted that if it was life threatening-I would feel it/God would let us know if we needed to act etc. I guess our plan for now is to NOT expose him to either peanut butter or honey (both of which parents are warned to not give their kids before a year old because of possible allergy problems) again. I'll tell his dr at our next check up what happened and we'll prolly wait 6 months and then have him tested before exposing him again/with his dr present etc. I guess i'm not shocked that he reacted with code being allergic to nuts-but he's allergic to pine nuts not peanuts, but I guess anything's possible.
Now that we're back to normal around here we're enjoying our sunday. In other far less stressful news I got a new flat iron/curling wand to play with/get used to so I'll be ready to style my hair after this saturday's cut ;) I love me a new haircut/style. I'm going shorter but not short-short.
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