Uncle!

Uncle!  I am crying it!  Last night as I woke up periodically feeling my throat start to get sore...then sorer and sorer...and my nasal passages swelling shut...I thought, "Oh boy, tomorrow's not going to be a whole lot of fun with a sick Asher and now a sick me."  But when I woke to Owen's peculiarly piercing screams (that boy knows how to express displeasure!!) and found him ralphing on the upstairs carpet, well, that's when the I knew it was going to be a character-building day.  Nothing like two GI-sick kids to keep you from focusing on your own discomforts!

What happens when tiny, immature brains are exposed to insanely large amounts of television programming?  I'll let you know when the results are in on my experiment.  Asher laid on me like a limp noodle all day, and Owen did alright until I let him drink 2 oz. at once, at which point it multiplied into way more than 2 oz. on the floor.  Well, whatever, we made it through the day.  Asher actually turned a corner at about 4pm, kept food and liquid down, and then at 5, he was the fussiest curmudgeon I'd ever met.  He was absolutely hateful and mean and I had no idea how to put him at ease.  I noticed his ears were bright red and he was really rubbing them so I made a late Dr.'s appt. (after having canceled one 2 hrs prior when he turned the corner) and by the time we got there...hives.  His chin and eyes were covered in little hives.  By the time we left the office...lips like Angelina Jolie's (literally, like 3 times the normal size), eyes almost swelled shut, itchy tongue, arms, legs, neck, everything.  He was MISERABLE and screamed the whole way home.  Dr. H thinks it's hives that can come along w/ a virus, often just a day or two before recovering from the virus.  Benadryl was the only recommendation, unless he starts having trouble breathing (praise the Lord, it hasn't gotten to that!).  I am just so grateful and feel very watched over that I happened to have him in to the Dr. for what I thought was ear infection (though that seemed very strange).  I think we would have been panicky about the hives at home, not having been through those before, or wouldn't have caught them since he would have been in bed for the night by the time they came on.  Yikes!

His little lips are still puffed, and he doesn't look like himself!  Prayers for him that it's passed by morning.  2 days of this is enough, thank you!