A New Look

BJ has been caught squinting to see at farther distances for a while now. We finally made an appointment with the eye doctor. His vision is not bad. One eye is worse that the other. Bad enough that he would need glasses to drive. (He has the same correction in that eye that I have in my glasses). BJ never complained about having difficulty seeing the board at school, even when asked. He always sat really close to the TV though and if he was sitting across the room from it would squint. He really likes his glasses and wears them all the time. Hopefully he will only ever need minor correction!

clarification

A quick note. The blood work for Will was done to verify results done a the doc's office, and to verify that it was indeed allergic in nature. (Angioedema can be hereditary, with no allergic beginnings). It was done to make sure his blood count was normal due to the bruising. All his blood work was normal. They did not do any allergy tests. He has been fine since.

All Hivey

Will developed hives the other day. He woke up with them on Tuesday morning, that night he looked like this. Weds night he looked even worse and started swelling in different places. His left hand was about 3 times its normal size and Benadryl wasn't doing anything. I started to get worried at that point and after consulting doc mom, I called our doctors office. We were able to get right in at the night clinic. We were first seen by a NP student, then the NP over him and then they had they other NP there come in. After quite a bit of discussion they decided it was something and said all they could do was treat symptoms and gave us a scrip for a steroid. They also said to watch him carefully in case he started having trouble breathing or became lethargic and to come back and see our regular doc the next morning. The next morning he didn't look any better. We went to see our doc and he said he's got angioedema. (Basically it's hives but instead of just being in the upper layer of the skin it's in the deeper layers as well.) He sent us to the hospital to get a bunch of blood drawn, told me to give him Benadryl as well as the steroid and come back tomorrow if he wasn't better. Thankfully he was better even by that evening. His face was clearing up and the swelling was going down. The next morning all the angry red bumps were gone and you could just see the bruising on his legs where the hives used to be. Long story short he had a bad reaction to some allergen that we have no idea what it could have been!

From the mouth of babes

Parker yesterday had complained a couple of times about his head hurting. This morning when he got up and crawled into bed with us, Joseph asked him how his head was. Parker replied "Jesus kissed my head and now its all better."