Our stay at Primary Children's Hospital

Anna woke up Saturday itching really bad. I put her in the shower and she went back to sleep. We had a long day the day before at Lagoon so she was still tired. When she woke up later the rash had gotten worse. I called and talked to a nurse and she said to give her Benadryl. After 2 doses of that it was still getting worse, plus her right had was swollen.

This was before it got too bad.
I took her into the clinic that evening and they prescribed her the steroid Prednisone. She was still happy, but itchy, that night. She woke up Sunday morning at 3am in so much pain and the rash was worse. Her eyes were almost swollen shut, both her hands and feet were swollen now too. She would just cry and ask us to please take her spots off. Her hands were really hurting her and she started to throw up. After she threw up the first time, she looked at Shaun and said "I'm sorry daddy." It was so sad. Finally at 7:30 we got ready and took her up to Primary's.

The doctors diagnosed her with something called Erythema Multiforme. Which I guess is just an allergic reaction to something foreign, nothing specific. They prescribed her an anti-itch medication and we went home. That day Anna wanted to be carried everywhere since her feet were swollen and hurt so bad. She still itched, the medication didn't really do much.

We gave her a bath in Aveeno Oatmeal to try to help with the itching.

Sunday night Anna wanted to sleep over at Grandma and Grandpa's house. I didn't want to leave her there alone in case it was another bad night. Sure enough it was horrible. I felt bad, my mom slept with Anna and I went in the other room. I was exhausted from the previous nights. They were up all night and even watched a movie at 2am. She finally fell asleep from 4-6:45, then woke up screaming for me. We took her back into the clinic that morning and the Dr. that saw us sent us back to Primary's to have her admitted.

They sent quite a few doctors in to see her, they were even going to have a Rheumatologist come in since her joints, knees, hands, feet, face, etc... were so swollen. When the dermatologist came in she said right away that it wasn't Erythema Multiforme and diagnosed her with Acute Serum Sickness. Anna had just gotten done taking the drug Omnicef for an ear infection. She had been on it before and was fine, but not this time. She had an allergic reaction to it and broke out in this horrible rash.

We went on wagon rides through the hospital and just hung out.

We went into the hospital on Monday and we were able to leave on Wednesday. By Wednesday she was feeling much better and was getting back to her crazy self. It felt so good to be home!!

We had lot's of visitor's and gifts. Thank you to all those that came and helped pass the time. She loved to see you all and so did we.

Outta there