Spring Springs (Read: Attacks)
Wednesday, May 2, 2012 at 9:31PM The month of April has not been kind to Eliana. It started out just fine, but these last two weeks have been a bit unusual. The spring, also known as Allergenicus Beastus, always deals us some heavy blows. Eliana, Michaela, and I all have allergies; Christian seems to be mildly affected, but not as badly as us girls (...we girls? Grammar nerds, let me know which is right.). I knock myself out with Benedryl, and have had some good experiences with Allegra. The girls? I kind of wing it. Michaela has been taking Allegra and thinks it works pretty well. Eliana...well. For a while she would take Benedryl at night and it seemed to get us through the days. Then I ran out of the liquid Benedryl, so I bought a new one-the exact same brand (I guess to be entirely accurate, I should say it was the Target knock-off of Benedryl) and the exact same flavor. However, this bottle apparently tasted completely different than the other one. "Weird," as someone I know put it. This same someone complained, fussed, whined, ran away, and generally refused to take the fake Benedryl, the Benedryl imposter imposter. I tried to use a squirty shot kind of medicine administrator (that sounds like a tough job, doesn't it?) and...she managed to spit it back out all over herself.
I think that because she was no longer taking the antihistamine, she became very congested and drippy. I also believe that it messed with her ears. Along with all of this allergy tomfoolery, she also had pink eye.
Let me tell you what is a lot of fun. Putting eye drops into a four-year-old's eyes. Especially eye drops that are thicker than tree sap. I'm fairly certain that one-hundredth of one percent of what I put in her eyes actually got into her eyes. They did clear up! So...hopefully that tiny percentage was enough!
However! During the time period that I was ridding this precious child of the pink eye, she told me her ear hurt. I called the doctor right away. Because this girl? Does NOT tell me that anything hurts, ever. Even when she has clearly hurt herself and is crying behind a bed with a black eye (yes, she ran into a door knob...it was not pretty). She had a very high fever when I took her in, and he prescribed an antibiotic for her ears.
Then! A week into taking the antibiotic, she woke up greatly speckled. I am talking from her cheeks to her cheeks. And beyond! Arms, legs, belly, back! Even her ears! Again I called the doctor and spoke to the nurse. She did not seem very worried, but (like me) thought it was probably related to whatever gave her a fever last week. She did say that if Eliana had any respiratory issues to call 911 immediately. So, that was reassuring!
Eliana does not seem to be fazed by her "bumps." They are itchy, sometimes. She looks rather alarming, so I have not taken her out and about too much. I know what I would think if I saw someone out with a polka-dotted kid.
At any rate, I'm looking forward to the arrival of summer. I think that with it our allergy problems will exit! Do you battle allergies? Press on! Spring has to end sometime!
Reader Comments (3)
Poor Eliana! Hopefully, she will feel better soon!
We've had our AC on for a month already which is ridiculous, but if I open the windows Hayden gets absolutely miserable. We've had good luck with prescription nasal spray and Claritin for him. Next time you're in to the doctor (which sounds like it will be soon) ask for a nasal spray sample.
Grammar opinion: Christian seems to be mildly affected, but not as badly as we girls (are affected).
Poor baby (Eliana)! But she still looks so cute!