Random Things

Today was rough for me.

I dropped Katie off at daycare and then headed over to the clinic to get Kasey's eye checked out and my arm checked out. I got an ant bite yesterday while I was cleaning out my van and it appeared to be infected this morning and was super painful.

They told me to go to the ER for my arm and to give Kasey some Benadryl. If the Benadryl didn't do the job or it looked worse we were to take him to the ER.


OK.


So I took Kasey over to Katie's daycare provider and asked if she could watch Kasey while I went to the ER. It's just not fun chasing kids around in the ER.


Sure enough. Infection city! So they put an IV with an antibiotic in me. The doc was satisfied with that as the redness faded a bit. He traced the red area and told me not to wash it off until I had my followup appointment with my PCM. Ok. So I look funny...Katie thought it was cool. See below:

I headed back over to the daycare to pick Kasey up. It was right at 10:00 so I was only going to be a few minutes late for work. I gave him some Benadryl and put him down for a nap. I myself took some Benadryl because MAN WAS MY ARM ITCHY! Holy cow! I wanted to rip it off or rub sandpaper on it or something. Sheesh!

Kasey slept for 3 1/2 hours! WOW! When he woke up he could barely open his eye and he was just screaming. So I grabbed some zip lock bags and filled them with grapes, a bagel and some goldfish crackers, filled up a cup with milk, made a few phone calls and headed back to the ER.

Kasey was flirty with the nurse and offered to share his bagel and grapes. The awesome thing was that the same people were working the front that had helped me earlier in the day so they got us in and out of there fairly quickly. The doc gave him some Atarax (which is the medicine Katie takes) and it seemed to help.

It just ended up being a very long day.