Tuesday's Tid BITES

Last week my son started at his new dayhome. He loves it there but kind of had a rough start due to his need to nap away the entire afternoon and the other kids' needs to stay busy and outside and run around and chaos! So he was a little cranky the first day (Wednesday) after his lack of adequate nap time. Thursday they went on a little wagon ride around the neighbourhood and my son got what I thought were mosquito bites on his face. He was the only kid that got bit even though they all had bug repellant on.

By Friday morning he looked like this.

So I'm thinking, Wow, that's some badass mosquito bite right there! I took him to the dayhome and then went to the pharmacy for some benadryl and went back to dose him with it. I left the dayhome lady the benadryl so she could give him some more in about 6 hours. Friday night I go to pick him up and the swelling has at least doubled, you couldn't even tell he had eyelashes because his eyelids had swollen past them. I see him and gasp, get him in the truck and whip over to the walk-in clinic. Doc says NO WAY those are mosquito bites, swelling is waaaay too bad and not the right shape. Doctor gave us a prescription for liquid antibiotics and a hydrocortisone cream to help with the inflammation.

Saturday morning kiddo woke up and the swelling and redness was even worse but started to go down once we he was up and moving around. It never seemed to bother him either, there were no changes in his behaviour. He was still his jolly little self. Sunday his eye was looking much better, barely any swelling. Still a bit of discoloration in the area, he looks like a prize fighter healing from a black eye but nothing like how it had been. We had his birthday party and all our family came over to celebrate. He had a great day.

That takes us to Monday. Face is looking a tiny bit better, he seems to finally be on the mend. I drop him off at the dayhome and he runs off in search of their hideous cat.

2:00pm Monday afternoon I get a call from the dayhome. She said my son only napped for 1 hour so she knew something was wrong. Took his temperature and he has a fever, can she give him some Tylenol? I said yes and immediately called out Doctor. They could get him in right away so I left work 2.5 hours early to pick kiddo up. We sat in the waiting room for 40 minutes and my son just sat in my lap and leaned against me with half open eyes the whole time. And here I was expecting my crazy busy boy with a Mr. Potato Head in my purse to keep him entertained. We talked to the Doctor and he said nothing was really wrong and since kiddo is already on broad spectrum antibiotics that will take care of any secondary infection taking place. I took him home.

All last night he just laid on the couch in a blankie and pillow cocoon and watched Ratatouille. He fell asleep at 7pm (very early for him) and we put him to bed. At 2:30am he woke up and we gave him a bottle, more advil and his antibiotics and he went back to sleep. My husband stayed home with him today because he's still feverish and miserable.

My poor little guy just can't get a break.