I am sorry, 3 trips to Wal-mart and other fun stuff

Yes I went to Wal-mart 3 times yesterday. After being in the car with a 4 year old, an almost 2 year old and a 1 year old for 12 hours the day before. You see, it all started...

Last Friday. Reese had been really stuffy and fell asleep in the car. When she woke up she was crying because her ears hurt. Knowing that we were going to be in the car for three days starting first thing Monday morning I took her to a clinic in Plano and had her ears checked. If it was an ear infection I didn't want to have to wait until Thursday (almost a week later) to see a doctor and Reese be in pain the whole time. When we finally got to see the doctor he looked at her ears and said they are not infected but she has soo much fluid in them that it is causing negative pressure and hurting her. He gave me an antibiotic. Well we all know Reese is allergic to Penicillin and so he gave me a sulfur based antibiotic. Reese has had this drug before and was fine so I didn't think anything of it until Tuesday night.

She developed a really high fever, again, and puked everything she had eaten since lunch and started to get spots on her cheeks. We were in Dayton, Ohio for the night and I thought maybe she was playing too hard with her cousins and it was a heat rash. They were running up and down the stairs and playing all sorts of things. They were having a ball until Carter came down and said, "um Aunt Jody, Reese is upstairs Puking!!" So I run upstairs to find that at least it all made it to the sink. Got her cleaned up and put the kids to bed.

Oh it gets better, just wait. When she woke up in the morning, she was covered from head to toe in spots and was itching like nobodies business. It was right then I knew she was allergic to the antibiotic. I didn't give it to her any more, gave her some benadryl and got on the road.

When we got back home at 10:30 at night (an 8 hour trip took 12 & 1/2) she had a hard time going to sleep and when she did she was only asleep for about 2 hours and she was up again. She kept saying she wanted to go to the doctor and get some medicine and that she was really itchy. Finally about 4:30 she fell asleep. She slept until 8:00 in the morning and woke up itchy and cold and so I called her pediatrician. We went in and the doctor said yes it is an allergic reaction to the drug and she wrote a prescription for some steroid to help with the itching. The benadryl was not really helping. So we went to Wal-mart. Trip number one. We went to the pharmacy and the pharmacist said, "It will take about 2 hours" 2 hours? My sister is at my house with Ryan and her 1 year old and I need to get home. Besides who wants to hang out at Wal-mart for 2 hours? Well we left and thought maybe Golden would stop on his way home from work and get her prescription.

Which he did. Trip number 2 to Wal-mart. But when he got there the prescription still wasn't ready and the lady went in to the back and quickly filled the bottle with the medicine. He had to wait a few minutes but she quickly slipped it into the bag and he paid for it and came home. When he got home the missionaries came over and we had dinner. We went to give Reese some of her medicine and all of it had spilled out of the container and was all over the bag. So I called the pharmacy and they said come back in and get some more. So trip number 3 to Wal-mart. We took all the kids after dinner to Wal-mart and finally got Reese some relief to the itching and she slept all night. She is still asleep as I am writing this (which she needs after not being able to sleep for 2 nights).

Now for the I am sorry. As we were leaving Wal-mart for the first time yesterday I was pulling out of the parking space and some old Grandma was speeding through the parking lot and pulled up right behind me and then laid on her horn. When I looked back at her she was yelling and waving her arms and flipped me the bird. I am sorry I didn't see you there before you honked your horn and I am sorry that I am such an inconsiderate driver and I am sorry I made you disgruntled enough to act like that. Now will you come and explain to my 4 year old who saw the whole thing what the middle finger means and why you felt you had to use it? It is a good thing our windows were rolled up because I probably would have to explain some choice words to her as well. A sweet old grandma of all people. What has gotten into people these days?

Other stuff-- We made it home finally and the weather here is just beautiful. The high yesterday was 80 and might be that again today. Jess picked a good week to come. I will download and edit pictures of our trip later. I need to go running before the kids get up.