The Story Continues ......

So last Monday night after starting Joseph on his new round of antibiotics we ended up in the emergency room. An hour after he had taken his medicine his eyelids on top and bottom began to swell and we were worried that it would move to his throat. We were lucky when we arrived at the hospital because they were able to get us in immediately.

The Dr. took one look at him and confirmed our original diagnosis of an allergic reaction to the amoxicillin and that the swelling in his eyes, hands, and feet were just part of the reaction running it's course and not the new antibiotics (whew). So she prescibed some more Prednisolone for the swelling and told us to come back if it didn't help. ( Yeah right Joseph was already fed up with Dr.'s there was no way he was coming back.)

So a few days passed and our little man was starting to act like himself again and Ben and I were thinking we were in the clear boy were we WRONG! Thursday evening Joseph refused to move his left arm and the slightest touch would send him into hysterics for hours, so we packed him back into the car and were headed back to the emergency room when we decided to call our personal nurse and ask her advice( Thanks for the help Mom.) She suggested we alternate Tylenol and Motrin and that should help.

He has been having joint pain all over the last few days and the Tylenol and Motrin were helping some until last night. The joint pain moved into his legs and hips, he was miserable and we were up all night long. So this morning we went back to the Dr. needless to say Joseph was less then thrilled with this decision.

The Dr. was worried that he may have what they call Kawasaki Disease where his platelet count is elevated and may affect his heart. His results came back and his platelet count is higher then it was last week but not high enough to where it could be the Kawasaki Disease. So she thinks it may be something called Serum sickness and in that case his joint pain could last another 2 weeks, she prescibed some more Prednisolone and wants to hear from us tomorrow. If he isn't improving she is going to send us to a specialist.

We sure hope that our little man gets to feeling better soon, as his wimp of a mom can't bear to put him through any more tests and watch him suffer. Ben has been wonderful to just sit and hold him for hours and pull these all nighters with me.