Alex's ER Visit

Yesterday when we picked Alex up from church the teacher told us that he complained about being cold and ended up falling asleep in her lap with a blanket around him.  He didn't have a fever and it can be cold in church.  We went to Firehouse for lunch and he ate pretty well, but still complained about being cold even though he had a jacket on (though I'm always cold in Firehouse, so I wasn't necessarily surprised that he was).  When we got home the boys were playing outside and when Matthew changed Alex he noticed that his hands, feet and knees were swollen and it looked like he had a bunch of bug bites.  I thought maybe he just got into an ant pile or something.  We called the doctor's office and they told us to give him Benadryl and go to the ER if his face swells or he has trouble breathing.  Luckily that never happened, but the swelling never did go down and Alex started saying that he hurt, so we called the doctor again and the nurse advised us to take him to the ER.  Matthew took him and, thankfully, the ER doctor took one look at him and knew he had an allergic reaction to the Augmentin he'd been taking for his ear infection.  I thought if he was going to have a reaction it would be with the first dose not the literal last dose, but the doctor said it was because it had built up in his system.  She gave Alex a steroid, told us to keep giving him Benadryl and Zyrtec and that all of the "bug bites" (what I thought it was) are probably going to blister in the next few days.  Poor Alex's feet are so swollen he's walking funny...but it's kind of cute.  Mostly he asks to be carried, though.  I never thought our first ER trip would be for allergies.  The way the boys run and jump I figured it would have been a broken bone instead!

Our poor Alex!!