If it isn't one thing...

...there's always something else.

This past Friday was Ben's only "off week" for football. Since we didn't go on a summer vacation this year, we decided this weekend would be a nice opportunity to get out of town. We didn't go far, but we decided to go to Gatlinburg, TN (about 2 hrs from our house) for the weekend.

Ben took Friday off to get some things done and run errands. I was only working a half day. Our plan was to leave after lunch, check-in at the hotel around 2-3pm, and then spend the evening at the Tanger Outlets for shopping and dinner. But as you know...things never go as planned.

Aidyn woke up with a huge welp (sp?) on his wrist and thumb. Both were pretty red and looked swollen too. If you remember my post about the blisters on his feet...well, this was just the same. Ben called the dr and they wanted us to bring him in to be looked at...at 2pm - the time we were supposed to be leaving. Great.

So we did. Aidyn is much more important that getting to a shopping outlet, haha, but we were pretty annoyed. Not with Aidyn, but the poor kid always seems to have something going on, I feel SO bad for him! But anyhow.

The dr said it did not look like spider bite. He felt like this thumb was due to chewing or sucking (Aidyn doesn't suck his thumb or fingers...but he DOES chew on them). He thought the welp on his wrist looked like an allergic reaction to something, but just incase it was an infection (that he didn't want to get worse) he prescribed amox-clav. Aidyn was to take 1/2 a teaspoon twice a day for 10 days. If the spot got bigger, worse, or he ran a fever, we were instructed to call back.

Aidyn had his first dose (1/2 tsp) around 8:30pm Friday evening. His wrist and thumb had already started looking better. By Saturday, his thumb looked much better. The spot on his wrist wasn't any smaller, but it wasn't as red. However... (here comes the fun part - yeah right)

Saturday afternoon/evening, we noticed Aidyn had 2-3 "patches" of white bumps on the back of his legs that resembled misquitoe bites surrounded with red, almost swollen, skin. We weren't sure what had caused that since he'd had pants on all day and been with us. He had slept in footed pjs the night before, in the same bed as me, and I had no bites. So, we put different pjs on and went to bed.

This morning, Sunday, when Aidyn woke up...he was covered in those bug-bite patches. The back of both legs were covered. He had new patches on the back/underside of both arms, small dot on his chest, small spot on his right cheek and ear lobe, and the entire left side of his bottom. I decided NOT to give him his morning dose of the Amox-clav incase that was the reason for this break-out.

Wouldn't you know, that by the time we got home (3 hrs later), the only spots left were his cheek and left leg. Aaaaand, by the time I got to my parents' for a quick visit (about 2-3 hrs later), they were ALL GONE! I have not given Aidyn anymore Amox-clav, and the patches have not reappeared. I definately think that was the problem.

The red welp on his wrist is slowly getting better, but not as quick as I'd like. However, since it looks identical to the "blisters" he had on his feet a month or two ago that healed just fine, I think we'll stay home from the dr office and just keep a close eye on it. We'd probably be in more "danger" sitting in a waiting room full of sick children then just staying at home.

Whew!

Atleast the breakout is gone and no more...that was my biggest concern.