We had some excitement this weekend.  As you know, if you are a regular reader of my blog, we eat quite a bit of shrimp and other shellfish.  On Friday evening, John brought home lobsters for dinner.  Yay!

We were eating them, and suddenly R said "my tongue feels burny and itchy."  A couple of minutes passed, and she was pulling at and scratching her tongue.  I took the lobster away and gave her Benadryl.  She seemed okay, but I thought I should call the pediatrician to see what he said.  It was after hours, so he had to call me back, and when he did, he said "take her, right now, to the ER!  And if she starts wheezing, call 911."  Yikes!  Off we went.

After waiting for two hours in the waiting room (and let me tell you that the Emergency Room waiting room is a very interesting place to people-watch...), the doctor finally saw her and said that she sounded and looked okay.  She recommended avoiding shellfish, giving her Benadryl for a few days, and getting her into an allergist ASAP. 

We had shrimp along with our other food yesterday at our Memorial Day cookout, and I made sure that they stayed on the opposite side of the grill... I also nagged asked everyone to wash their hands after eating.  My poor R!  I'm not quite sure what happened, if it was really an allergic reaction, or something else.  Hopefully we'll be able to get her into the allergist sometime soon and will have some answers.

The rest of the weekend went fine!  The kids played outside a lot, we had a cookout yesterday, and we're ready to get back to our normal routine today.

Have a good week!