ladykatza

tuesday i got a call from the school telling me that simon was breaking out into hives all over his hands. they couldn’t give him anything because a release form hasn’t been signed and they don’t stock any sort of medicine. this irked me, but they said they would call back if it got worse. i got a call five minutes later.

so, i left work to rush up to the school and give simon benedryl. i signed the form and everything was ok. the swelling had gone down before i got there, so i didn’t worry overly much. last night, however, i had gone to lay down to rest my back and fell asleep. i woke to hearing this horrible crying and wheezing noise coming from simon. he was red and wheezing, and trying to throw up. the throwing up was mainly from the coughing, in retrospect. i was worried it might be anaphalactic shock, so we gave him some benedryl just in case and put some clothes on him and headed out to the hospital.

once simon calmed down, he was breathing much better. i had thrown on a shirt over my pajama pants and put the first pair of shoes on i could find and we were in the car and headed for the ER. they have a pediatric section where we went, which was much nicer than the regular area. did i mention i was panicking? i was trying not to, and was very glad that daecon was level headed. anyway, simon was doing better, the nurse gave him some motrin for his fevor and then we waited for the doctor. the woman looked like she had been on her feet for 12 hours and running ragged. she said it was croup, which is a virus and can cause hive breakouts, although that is unusual. they gave him an oral steroid medicine to help the breathing and a popsicle. i was surpised at how quickly we went through, it wasn’t very busy at that point.

so, simon is ok, but my nerves are fried. i decided to sleep in and come into work a little late and found out that i wasn’t the only one that had a long night with sick child. i’m glad i work someplace that understands these things.

Current Mood:  relieved