Today was crazy. It had started out to be a nice, peaceful, lazy day. James & Deedee were both outside playing and Kitty was still asleep. I had meandered over to a neighbor to swap some zippers and a few other notions for some outifts I'm working on for the girls and ask how she's doing (she's 8 months pregnant and counting the days :D ). Carey had dropped in real quick for a bit to eat before heading to class. So I was surprised to see Carey running over, yelling about Deedee and hospitals. Oh, no. I start to rush off, with visions of blood gushing everywhere and then he says bug bight. Huh?
So I slow down and start to tell him that he needs to find a better way of saying things than scaring me like that when I get a look at her arm. Sometime between kicking her out and the hour and a half later that we discover it, her arm had puffed up twice it's size just below the elbow. That really does freak me out since although we've been bitten by various bugs before, none of us have ever had this reaction before. So the doc gets called, Kitty gets woken up and everyone is dropped of with Grandma so Deedee could could see the doctor. Sigh... after a 40 minute wait in the lobby, it only takes Dr. A 10 minutes to take a look, give a prognosis of a spider bite and give me instructions of how to care for it. I was a little surprised that I was told not to bother giving her benadryl or cortisone cream, but then again, that's why I like this pediatric office and am willing to drive 16 miles round trip, even with these gas horrible gas prices. They're untraditional in the fact that they don't push a ton of synthetic meds on you and will even tell you when they don't think something will work. I was told just to pust some aloe vera on it to help sooth any itching, and to keep it clean in case of infection in the punture wounds.
Of course, my MIL wasn't happy about that and insisted that I use benadryl but I think I'll just keep an eye on it and see how it does. I was told that the swelling would go down in a day or two so we'll see.
And then this afternoon we celebrated Kitty's birthday by taking the kids out for ice cream. It's a local little shoppe where I get most of my produce as well as local eggs & sometimes milk. They also sell sandwiches, smoothies, etc at really reasonable prices. I love the proprietor. He goes out of his way to work with you and is very welcoming to the kids. That is to say, he doesn't glare at one when he sees the horde coming and he even asks after them when I happen to pop in by myself. The kids had a blast picking out their flavors. Everyone got little child size waffle coans for only $1 apiece wich is much better than if we'd gone to Baskin Robbins (whose stuff always makes me sick).
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