Morning Scare

When Annabelle woke up this morning we found her looking like this...

She had extreme swelling, redness, and rashes all over her entire body. Of course I immediately freaked out and panicked and scrambled to get her ready to go to the doctor. Who knows when this all started in the night - she was fine when we put her to bed at 7:00 and then we didn't see her again until 7:30 the next morning. She had not had anything to eat since the night before and I knew she was hungry so we fed her the safest thing we thought she could handle. We arrived at the doctor office and the doctor came right out to the waiting room to look at her. He told the receptionist to have her admitted to the back immediately, however it still took a few minutes. Then the doctor comes out and demands for the nurse to have us ready and sent back. I was grateful for that doctor. They had 6 nurses hold her down to draw her blood and put in an iv for some medications. It turns out that she is obviously allergic to something, now the trick is figuring out what it is. We are going to see the allergist on Wednesday. And go figure Jeff had two tests today of all days so I was alone with her at the doctor for most of the time.

Just cuddling with Mom at the hospital.

Here is her cool splint they put on so that she wouldn't bend her arm with the iv.

The swelling has now dropped from her eyes into her cheeks. She is looking much better but definitely not back to normal yet.

She was quite a trooper through it all and stayed being her happy little self. Fortunately, she didn't seem bothered by the massive welts and swelling that covered her body. Here is a little clip of her playing at the doctor. Thanks to everyone for your thoughts and prayers!