Thursday, November 22, 2012

Sadly? Still not our worst Thanksgiving story

Had to head to the ER this morning, after what was a small-ish rash yesterday tried to eat my whole upper body over night.  By the time Mom got up this morning, it basically looked like I was wearing an angry red turtleneck, with weird splotches and bumps.  Who knows?  They diagnosis was "allergic reaction - to something," but since I haven't tried anything new (medicines, lotions, foods) in the past couple of days, I have no idea what that might be.  After some steroids (my third dose in a month: yippee, all that weight I lost over the summer?  Welcome back!) and Benadryl (which did nothing on its own, yesterday, but made a liar out of me with the doctor today),  and a couple of hours, we were free to leave and continue with our feast. 

Except.... when I mix Benadryl with my meds?  Not so much for the feasting, and a whole lot of giggles at my expense.  Stupid gigglers.  The worst part is that the heating pad irritates the hives, so I have to double up on my pain meds to compensate.  It's all just ridiculous.  On the plus side, maybe I'll be able to close my eyes for a little while now. 

2 comments:

Crazed Nitwit said...

IV benadryl works much better than pill benadryl so the ER nurses tell me. Hope you're feeling better today!

Sue Jackson said...

Yikes. Sounds awful - so sorry!!

My son sometimes gets random hives and we can't figure out why - but not that bad. Hope you are feeling better by now.

Sue