HIVES!!

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Kaedyn is my mini-me........ I mean, let's face it, the kid looks just like me.  ::: Looks around cautiously :::  He acts just like me too .... shhhhhhhhhhhh .....  but one thing I really HOPED he wouldn't be like me with was allergies.  I'm allergic to EVERYTHING ....... and I'm not even kidding when I say that.  Molds ... yep! Pollen, you betcha! Animals, of course!  Soaps & stuff... of course!!  Medicines ... sure, there are a few.  Foods ... name a fruit, I'm probably allergic to it.  I thought it was fruits AND veggies, but it's mostly just fruits.  What aren't I allergic to? 

Well, Kaedyn has been having small hives here and there through the summer, benedryl has become a nightly staple between his itching (oddly it seems to help when he's really itchy with his eczema) ... and his hives.   I thought the hives were just an environmental thing... but last night, he was COVERED in LARGE hives and small ones.  They were all over his back, his butt, his legs, his arms... I don't know when he got them but boy did he get them!!

Here are some pictures I took before Dennis took him into urgent care to document the case so we can get him some allergy testing.  There are 4 pictures, the lighter ones are the normal ones, and then the identical ones below them are with contrast to make the hives pop out a little better........

This scares me.  I have sooooooo many allergies, it's hard to know what he's allergic to.  Especially since he didn't eat anything out of the ordinary yesterday that I know of - other then candy corn, but he had some of that last year.  Dennis has anaphylaxis when it comes to lobster and other shell fish, to the point where he needs an epi pen.

Then I gave him the prednisone and benadryl this morning, and gave him a bowl of cereal ... next thing I know, he's throwing up.  Then he didn't eat anymore.  So I really think maybe his throat was affected too. 

I called to try to talk to the Doc this morning.  Sadly she didn't have anything available today, so I am talking to the DR tomorrow morning, first thing, and I'm going to get him in for allergy testing ASAP ...

Noah Gets His Hearing Aid

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We went to Seattle because it was time to get Noah's hearing aid...   Here he is getting his hearing aid programed ...

 One of the things he got, Audo the Otter has two hearing aids...

 Noah getting his hearing aid programed ...

 Audo's foot, his box he carries around for his hearing aid and a book he got...

 Bag of goodies...

 Noah and his hearing aid

 "Hearing Aid Care Kit - Ages 5 to 10"

 Little better picture of his hearing aid on ...

 Holding Max ...

 He did really well that day.  He was so excited to get it.  I thought transitioning to it would be a breeze!  We went through the training on how to take care of it, how to clean it, how to change the battery and how to turn it on and off, how to adjust the volume and how to put it in.  We got out to the van, thought he'd just take in all the new sounds - hearing in stereo ... but he took it off with in 5 minutes.  It was to much for his audio sensory issues...

Over the next few days, he was only able to wear it for short periods of time... but by the end of the week he wore it all day - YAY!

Kaedyn's 2nd Oral Surgery

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Took younger boys in for their dental check up, and much to our dismay, Kaedyn's 2 year molars that had broke through after his first oral surgery were needing repair and caps.

When we got to the hospital we took a minute to watch the fountain ... 

 My handsome guy ....

 He was NOT happy about getting undressed and the hospital clothes on...

 He was kicking and screaming and fighting me, taking OFF the gown as soon as I put it on and I could NOT get the pants on him AT ALL ...... It was a rough day...

 And me threatening him and telling him I was going to take pictures and put them on Facebook/my blog... didn't phase him...  

But I did manage to get him to relax, only to have him flip out anytime anyone walked into the room ...

 But we cuddled ...

 THEN they gave him the good drugs ......

 Why is it my kids get these drugs and they think playing with their tongue is the funniest thing in the world?

 Then they got him ready to go off ...  he insisted on taking his baby

I didn't get any pictures after, my arms were to full of baby and I was by myself.  Kaedyn does not wake up well from anesthesia, he's very combative ...  and then when we got to the point to go home, he started throwing up.  So yeah, I was pretty busy ...  but surgery went well, they got his teeth fixed and the caps on, replaced another cap and they didn't have to do a baby root canal on the tooth that was the worst, so YAY...

But he wasn't feeling well for about 24 hours or so .... :(  He crawled into bed with us overnight and slept late

That's right, he was PROBED!!

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For his 24 Hour Video EEG, Nathan was that is.  We showed up with all our stuff and we were escorted to a room.  The Children's Hospital part of Mary Bridge is lock tight, let me tell you.  No one gets in or out without the nurses knowing.

At first he was okay with being there....

Kaedyn was great as long as he knew it wasn't for him!

However, when it came time to get the probes on .. or BUTTONS as we called them .... he tried to take a run for it.

The lady drew these smiley faces on his hands to help ease the process a little ... 

Eventually he just sorta relaxed and went with the process ....

Kaedyn had fun occupying himself ....

tried to get Nathan distracted by reading a dinosaur book but he just wanted to hold it instead...

She let him hold the oxygen tube which they were using to "dry" the glue to hold the probes ... 

Kaedyn was balancing the ball on the edge of the bed.

Covering his eyes for the ones close to his face

The relief he has in his eyes when everyone says ALL DONE!

Then she connected all the wires ...

He got this amazing mesh hat, it's going to be the next big thing in fashion, let me tell you!

He was sporting a wire & mesh ponytail!

Here he is eating dinner ........ gotta love kids who love their veggies!!  Mine do!

Sleeping like the sweet angel he is....

Video of him sleeping & snoring .. lol...

The following day ...  he slept just fine that night.  I didn't, but he did.  He chowed down on his breakfast .. .

 When it came to leave (around noon) we stopped to look at the fun stuff in the room outside the elevators.  There was an animated dinosaur ... and we all know how much Nathan LOVES dinosaurs!  Here Nathan and Noah are checking it out ...

 The huge aquarium ...

 Nathan watching the dino ...

 His hair was all kinds of greasy and gunky after they got the probes out ... it had to do with the stuff they used to get them off... took me a few days to get it all out of his hair...

Still don't know the results, won't until we see the Neurologist in November...