That's about how to describe Monday to Thursday this past week. Julia woke up Monday morning with hives so I took her to the doctor. He didn't know what the hives came from but he did tell me that Julia has a little asthma. I was really worried because the hives kept getting worse and would seem to cover her whole body. Her face was really red and ears completely red at one point. She's been coughing like crazy for a few weeks.
The good thing about seeing the doctor is that he wrote Julia a prescription for both the cough and the asthma and she is barely coughing now. Whenever I talk to doctors they always say to wait the cough out a few weeks but with Julia I think it's better to catch it right away. I guess her cough has a harder time clearing up because of the asthma. The asthma meds seemed to have finally cleared up whatever the rash was too.
I thought the hives could be caused by bed bugs because they did look a little like bites; so I did the responsible thing and googled bed bugs. They said to look for black dots (bug poop) and I saw black dots (maybe dirt?) under the mattress on the slats so I started to freak out and washed everything with hot water. I put the mattresses outside to air out then inspected them to look for the eggs and bugs. They were completely clear but I didn't tell Julia that it was just a false alarm because she didn't seem to care about it.
So yesterday when she got back to school she told all of the kids and some parents that she had bed bugs (she also still had some hives to add more fuel to the fire). So the parents were naturally concerned and one gave the teacher a hard time about it so she called about 20 minutes after dropping Julia off. Good to know they act fast but even after I assured her that Julia does not have bed bugs and explaining her situation at drop off time I still had to get a message faxed over from the doctors. An e-mail was sent out yesterday to calm the parents down explaining that Julia does in fact NOT have bed bugs and the doctors note is in the office files; so hopefully that's the end of that. Oh sicknesses and misunderstandings; all I can say is thank God she's better and hopefully she stays that way.
2 comments:
OMG poor Julia that sounds so bad. I know sometimes kids can get hives with asthma so it may have been the cause. Mer knows a good amount about asthma so I would totally talk to her about it and she can give you some pointers. I hope everything turns out better for this week. :)
thanks Grace! no more hives but everybody else has gotten sick. Julia seems to be staying healthy though.
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