Scary Stuff!
Wow, this week we had one of those wakeup calls about how fast something can happen and completely turn your life upside down (at least temporarily)
Tuesday night Scarlett was really restless with her sleep, Gareth had gone to bed early with a bad headache and so it was me getting up to Scar that night, which I didn't mind. It was just one of those nights and I didn't sleep well!
Wednesday was busy with my Auntie over for the morning and then a DSH chat and I just felt tired and wanted takeaway for tea which Gareth was happy to pick up...bless him!
We ate at 6.30pm, and at 7.30pm I went into the study to ask Gareth for some help getting kids to bed and noticed he had a couple of mozzie bite marks in one area just under his armpit and he commented he thought it was itchy there. We put the kids to bed and G went back on the PC while I watched TV, but he came in about 8.20 and his arms were now both covered in what looked giant mozzie bites and they were spreading fast. Making a looong story short by 10.30pm these "bites" had spread the length of both arms, down his torso, stomach and starting up his neck and down his legs. The original "bites" were all merged into one huge lump..so enough was enough and he took himself off down to the hospital. They gave him an anti-histamine (assuming it was hives) and told him to wait an hour...45 minutes into that hour he went to stand up and his blood pressure crashed, he ended up having adrenalin and an ECG to stabilise him. He stayed overnight (but in his state didn't get to ring me so I was at home freaking out as to where he was until I rang the ER at 5.15am) He arrived home at 8.20am and so much of his rash was gone, it was just unbelievable. He went to sleep but by midday it was all starting up again and so I had our family GP come in and see him, he was prescribed medication and that seems to have done the trick for now, but the Dr says he suffered an anaphylactic reaction which can be life-threatening so we need to find the trigger and it is a possibility he will have to carry around with him an adrenalin shot, we will know more once we see an allergy specialist.
We were lucky as throughout the ordeal, DH never actually felt sick and kept his sense of humour and even allowed me to take photos, now I just have to convince him to let me scrap them..or show them here on my blog!
Wow, this week we had one of those wakeup calls about how fast something can happen and completely turn your life upside down (at least temporarily)
Tuesday night Scarlett was really restless with her sleep, Gareth had gone to bed early with a bad headache and so it was me getting up to Scar that night, which I didn't mind. It was just one of those nights and I didn't sleep well!
Wednesday was busy with my Auntie over for the morning and then a DSH chat and I just felt tired and wanted takeaway for tea which Gareth was happy to pick up...bless him!
We ate at 6.30pm, and at 7.30pm I went into the study to ask Gareth for some help getting kids to bed and noticed he had a couple of mozzie bite marks in one area just under his armpit and he commented he thought it was itchy there. We put the kids to bed and G went back on the PC while I watched TV, but he came in about 8.20 and his arms were now both covered in what looked giant mozzie bites and they were spreading fast. Making a looong story short by 10.30pm these "bites" had spread the length of both arms, down his torso, stomach and starting up his neck and down his legs. The original "bites" were all merged into one huge lump..so enough was enough and he took himself off down to the hospital. They gave him an anti-histamine (assuming it was hives) and told him to wait an hour...45 minutes into that hour he went to stand up and his blood pressure crashed, he ended up having adrenalin and an ECG to stabilise him. He stayed overnight (but in his state didn't get to ring me so I was at home freaking out as to where he was until I rang the ER at 5.15am) He arrived home at 8.20am and so much of his rash was gone, it was just unbelievable. He went to sleep but by midday it was all starting up again and so I had our family GP come in and see him, he was prescribed medication and that seems to have done the trick for now, but the Dr says he suffered an anaphylactic reaction which can be life-threatening so we need to find the trigger and it is a possibility he will have to carry around with him an adrenalin shot, we will know more once we see an allergy specialist.
We were lucky as throughout the ordeal, DH never actually felt sick and kept his sense of humour and even allowed me to take photos, now I just have to convince him to let me scrap them..or show them here on my blog!
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