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.