Wednesday, Sept 15 ER visit

Well those wonderful antibiotics the Doctor gave Lloyd for his stitches were not a good thing. yes everything is healing ok but he gave him 2000mg of Keflex a day. Lets just say on day 5 his system had enough! We went to bed at 9pm(yes we are old folk!). Lloyd woke me up a few minutes before 11pm saying he was itching like he had poison ivy! Ok let me wake up put on my glasses and turn on the light. Thinking to myself well maybe he was bit by a mosquito or something. he was wringing his hands trying to take the skin right off folks. Since my lovely daughter was allergic to many things over her life I knew exactly what was wrong. Yes, he had hives and a pretty bad case. I gave him a couple benadrylls and tried to get him into a cold shower. No such luck as he started getting nauseous and light headed and then having a hard time breathing. Ok next step was to call Kaiser advise nurse now almost 11:20. As I'm dialing and connecting of course I'm getting dressed because I know whats next. She advised us to call 911 and get a ambulance to take him to hospital. Calmly I asked for address to hospital and it was only a couple miles away. I knew I could get him there quickly so we skipped the whole circus scene of the ambulance ride. We walked in and they were admitting another kid and then took us right in! yes no waiting only the amount of time it took me to park the car! Lets just say as we were in the room I watched more hives appear before my eyes and his legs getting red with every new hive. Finally Doctor came in and gave him 2 shots. One for breathing and one to take away the hives. One shot was very painful and to see a big guy like this wincing in pain wasn't pretty. The nurse got him a ice pack and said this is normal reaction to the shot. The ice pack made it all better and he began to breath normal and rest. by the time we got out and home, lets just say I wasn't going to sleep for a hour and go to work. Lloyd pretty much slept all of Thursday at home with me watching him.

Stitches, Yuck

Well Lloyd was bit by a spider 7 years ago. Yes seven. All was fine until a couple of months ago when it abscessed. Okay it was getting the start of the hunchback of notre dam. We went to the doctors and the drained it, packed it, and covered it. Gave him some antibiotics and we were on our way. We had to go back 3 days later for them to take packing out and check it. Great Doctor the 2nd time! he explained as soon as it was healed we needed to have the cyst removed or it could happen again. We actually had been talking about having it removed before it even had abscessed. So we made a date with the surgeon to have it removed. All done on a out patient basis and to come back in 12 days and have stitches removed. Okay i am not great with stitches so my first comment when i had to look at it was "Looks like Frankenstein". I'm sure my husband was not happy to hear that but they put these half inch long stitches in and there were 7 of them. I am thinking there are smaller stitched inside the wound and these huge ones were just to hold it all together while it healed. If not that doctor was BAD! So here it is, yes that's my thumb to tell you how large it really is. About 2 inches in length! He took out about a quarter size cyst and we are still waiting on the biopsy results. Maybe Wednesday they will be in when he goes to get the stitches out!