More with the WICKED FUN-NESS!

AAAAAARRRRRRRGGGGGH!

So, have I ever told you about how I thought that allergies were (rolls eyes) “ALL IN YOUR HEAD”!

I mean, there are just so freakin’ many of them out there now and it feels like every time you turn around another kid is showing up at a school with some weird freaky allergy, and making life all sorts of difficult for everyone else. I mean, SERIOUSLY, the nerve of that child….come on people….don’t be so stupid and inconvenient. I have a life, and I want to live it free from your allergies…..

Oh, I imagine that it might not be a picinic for you either, but come on…don’t make my life more difficult. I want to be able to enjoy life and have a peanut butter sandwich wherever I please.

What was that?

Oh….I guess you just want to be able to “just enjoy life”. I guess I can understand that.

See, when Siah was 6 weeks old he started getting eczema on his head. I had it checked out because it seemed different to me than normal cradle cap. It oozed and he would lay beside me in bed at night and scratch ALL! NIGHT! LONG!

What tiny infant scratches and scratches and scratches…especially at cradle cap. Hmph! Seriously!

So anyway, we dealt with ever spreading, oozing eczema, and vomiting and bloody mucus-y poop (that was my favorite). Once we identified that it was dairy and soy and eggs and all sorts of other various things, and I cut them all out………VOILA! Healthy Baby! It was AWESOME!

So, now I have spent the last year stressing about protecting my baby from other “stupid” people who don’t belive that allergies are “real”! Yah, that’s a lot of fun!

Payback, eh?

But, Saturday night/Sunday morning with the vomiting, and Sunday night with the bloody poo, and then today……OH TODAY!

Well, more realistically we are talking about tonight.

I gave Siah some chewed up cashews. I’ve given him cashews before with no problems – that I knew of. I gave him one mouthful. and then a second mouthful and then a third…which he spit on the floor. I chided him for being a cheeky monkey and cleaned it up.

About 5 minutes later I noticed that he had a reaction around his mouth. It was red and rashy and SUCKS! So, I got a rag and tried to wash it all off – all the while stressing about what it was doing to his insides – if this was the reaction on the outside, and praying that beause his system was already just recently compromised from the recent reaction, that we wouldn’t have an even bigger reaction.

I noticed that he was rubbing his eye, but didn’t think too much of it.

5 minutes later, there was noticibly WAY MORE eye rubbing and the eye was redder and puffier and nothing could disuade him from rubbing. It was obviously a reaction . I think that he must of had some of the cashew got on his hands and he rubbed it into his eye.

Here it is, and understand that the pictures does it absolutely no justice. It looked worse than it did here……and the mouth was WAY better than it was originally.

I sent Jon out to get some Benadryl. We gave him some and the eye has started to settle down some and he’s not scratching like he’s trying to eradicate it from his head – That was fun, let me tell you.

I’m stressed about more bloody poop and vomiting. I’m also freaking about what else is “out there” that he might react to. That part of life is fun.

So, Here I am stressing about Siah……Stressing about Allergies…..Stressing about not knowing……Stressing about what to expect….Stressing about what to do….

I HATE STRESSING!

And, in the middle of all the drama….he’s still just so darn cute and happy.

And…in other news…..I had sucessfully avoided that stores today until tonight…..when we added $8.40 on Bendaryl to our monthly spending bringing the total up to…..$102.35….stupid allergies!