It has been a crazy month at our house. It all started when Camden said that his feet hurt and he couldn't walk. Being the nice mom that I am I said oh "your feet are just asleep, go play". About an hour later I asked him to put away his cloths and he said he couldn't because it hurt to much to walk.
So I go over and look at his foot and it was swollen like a dead man. I called the doctor and made an appointment for that night. Within 15 min both of his feet had swollen 3 times there size and the swelling started to go up his legs. Me being the rational person that I am started freaking out and crying. To make it worse Brian was at a meeting and he didn't have a phone. So I was trying to call all the people I knew that were at this meeting. I am sure they thought I was a basket case, so anyway, after an eternity (10 minutes) I finally got hold of him. In the meantime I called my doctor and told them I was taking him to the emergency room, they told me that was probably not necessary and made me an appointment immediately.
Within 25 minutes of me noticing the swelling he had gotten so tender on his hands, elbows, knees, and feet that he would cry every time you touched him. So when we finally arrived at the doctor, they started doing all these tests. One was a strep test and he threw up all over everything when they swapped him. Lucky for him they had clothes he could change into but unlucky for me I couldn't. I had puke everywhere in my hair all over my clothes, it was great. Well he tested positive for strep but that didn't really explain all the swelling. So they took his blood pressure and it was so low that it didn't even register. So we were there for almost 3 hours while they were determining if he should go to the hospital. They finally told us to take him home but just "watch him really close". Now that is a comforting phrase that parents just love to here " watch him" ... That night he slept with me and Brian was on the couch, Brian woke up every hour to check on him and make sure he was still breathing. It was not a peaceful night to say the least. Well the next day things did not improve, he couldn't even stand up to go to the bathroom. He also developed this weird rash all over his body (the pictures are after he had it for a couple of days). It first was a red pin prick rash and then it developed into these blood patches. After a couple of days they would turn to bruises. For the next week and a half we were at the doctors office and the hospital (getting blood drawn) at least every other day. Camden was in heaven because he was able to play video games and watch movies, but the rest of us were flipping out. The doctors had no idea what was going on, so that made it even more exciting. Some days his swelling would go away and then out of the clear blue it would come back with this weird bumps and a rash. But the good thing is after about two weeks it just went away. Weird huh.
During those two weeks Cambria also had strep, then she got the flu and was throwing up and having major bathroom issues for 3 days, and then to top it all off Brian got strep and has this persistant cough that won't go away (for over a month now). Add all those things to me being pregnant and sick and life has just been CRAZY.. But the good news is, that everyone is almost better. Camden got Strep again on Friday but no wierd other stuff, brian had chest x-rays, and they found nothing, Chubba is all better, and I am no longer throwing up. Yeah
Thank heavens for prayer. I don't know how we would of made it threw. Oh a side note we found out last month that we are having a girl and we are very excited, except Camden who really wanted a little brother.
