Peanut - On The Mend

On December 27th Peanut ended up in the Emergency Room, and was later admitted into the hospital, due to a pretty heavy duty allergic reaction and high fever.  It's a REALLY long story.  He was almost unrecognizable, at the worst stage of the reaction, due to his eyes being swelled shut, his ears being bright red and completely swollen, the rest of his body being very swollen and covered with large crazy shaped, bright red blotches - all over his head, arms, legs, belly, back, neck.....his feet were so swollen he could not wear his shoes for about 5 days.  In addition to all the blood and urine labs, they also did a spinal tap in the ER to rule out meningitis.  Hubby and I were absolutely horrified seeing him like this, and it was so scary not knowing what was happening to him.

He was released from the hospital late morning the next day, and continued to get better with each day.  The swelling is gone, the rash and fever are gone.  He had gained approx. two pounds due to all the swelling, and our pediatrician told me to keep an eye on his weight, that it should decrease rather quickly once the reaction / rash was completely over.  He lost exactly two pounds in 24 hours - which is wonderful.  Had the swelling not gone away soon his kidney function would have needed to be tested next.  We are SOOOOOO thankful he seems to be back to normal.  Thank God.

This video was taken at home one day after he was released from the hospital.  He looks SO MUCH better in the video than he looked in the hospital.  At his worst he truly looked like a different baby.  Very scary.