Last Wednesday Makayla woke up with what I thought were hives all over her stomach. She was scratching them, and I could tell they were really bothering her. I called and talked to the pediatrician's nurse and she suggested giving her Benedryl. By Wednesday night they still had not improved and in fact were spreading to all over her chest and her back. Some of them were even turning a purplish color. We had Makayla sleep in our bed that night and she was miserable. She tossed and turned and kept scratching all night long. Thursday morning the hives were spreading to her face and were all over her body. I called and talked to the nurse again and she suggested bringing her in since it was difficult to diagnose hives and rashes over the phone. I packed up both kids and we headed to the doctor. Aside from the scratching and hives, Makayla was acting fine. We weren't able to see her normal doctor, but the other doctor said that they were hives and it was concerning the hives were turning to bruises. She said it was a reaction, but probably from some type of virus, like strep. She wanted to run some tests, so Makayla had to pee in a cup which was a long and difficult process to get her to do that. We tried two times at the doctor's office and then ended up leaving to go get some lunch. Makayla ended up peeing in the cup in the Arctic Circle bathroom (and I'll be honest, she peed all over my hands too). In addition to the pee test they gave her a steroid to calm her immune system down and we had to take her to the hospital to to get her blood drawn. The blood draw was the hardest because I had to hold her in my arms while another guy held her arm still and another girl drew the blood. Makayla screamed and I just felt so helpless. There is no worse feeling in the world knowing one of your kids is hurting and there is nothing you can do. The only pictures I took were Thursday night. You can see how they were all over her body and they were bruising. Makayla couldn't say "hives" so she called them "pipes"
Even though it was traumatic, Makayla loved showing off her "bandaid" from her blood draw.
Friday morning Tyler and I took Makayla in for a follow up with her doctor. He immediately diagnosed it as Erythma Multiforme. Basically it was a reaction, but it was not hives. The good news is that it is not a serious condition. He said it is usually caused from some type of virus, but since we didn't know of anyone who was sick, we will probably never know how she got it. The even better news is that the doctor said it would go away in a few days and she would be fine. And you know what? By Friday night they were almost completely gone. I couldn't believe that something that seemed so serious just a few days before, was gone within a few days.
We are just so relieved that it was not anything serious, and Makayla is even more happy that her "pipes" are all gone!
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