Quick Update!

Clover is doing MUCH better....thank goodness. She responded to the homeopathy almost immediately and there is no more swelling and she has a few hive dots on her back.

One of our friends who is a dermatologist left a comment about what her condition is and how serious it could be. As I googled and researched the information I feel much better knowing what it is and what to look out for if it occurs again in the future.

Urticaria and Angioedema... google it and be prepared in case it ever strikes someone in your family.

This has been fun

It started out just like any other cold...runny nose, cough, low grade fever 101.8. By the second night around 5pm fever is 104.0 so we give Tylenol. By 7:30pm I notice that her lips are swelling and she has a strange "ring" rash on her arm.

By 2:30am we notice the rash is morphing and spreading to pelvic area and bum (sorry no photos posted of adorable bum).

By 7am rash that looks like welts is all over and the little ring shapes have broken open and look like whipping stripes and yes they are hurting her.

By 8:45am we are in the doctors office and I thought for sure he was going to tell me that she had Ring Worm in which I had become an expert on during this sleepless night trying to figure out what might be all over my daughters body. The doctor says "no" to ring worm but "yes" to virus hives.

What in the world is virus hives. Her body is producing too much histamine with the virus and her body is responding with hives....nice. He suggested giving her Benadryl and if that doesn't work in a couple of weeks to then give her steroids.

Three days later we are looking like this. The welts are less but it just keeps moving around and her face is swelling up again. The Benadryl isn't really working and we are giving her more than I really feel comfortable with.

Day four I wake up to this! Honestly, I barely recognized her...the pictures didn't really capture it.

Enough!

I am now getting pretty concerned that the swelling could turn inward and maybe start to restrict her breathing. I made an appointment with our alternative medicine doctor and discovered that her liver and kidneys are trying to push out toxins from something that has infected her, maybe like the three other viruses since her H1N1 dealio. While we are in the office the hives are moving all over her face and starting to reappear on her back, bum, tummy, feet, hands, and legs again.

Anyway, we are using homeopathy to assist in the cleansing and so far her face has shrunk quite a bit....wish us luck.

This has been the weirdest thing ever!

Rain Gutter Rigotta

Halloween Costumes 2009

Happy Halloween monster cake....yummy!



Wolverine!


Beauty Queen 1983 (looks more 70's though)


Sunny the Giraffe

Bat Girl....of course.

Red Eye Green Tree Pets

Our children are getting older and insisting on having pets. I like dogs and cats as long as they live somewhere else.....so what to do.

Frogs.

We have six frogs now. Two of these Red-eyes, two gree tree, and two Whites tree frogs and the kids are happy.

H1N1 Hair

When Clover was really sick a month ago her body ached so badly that I didn't even attempt to brush out her hair...her curls really make it quite the event daily and I decided no to torture her. After about a week of neglect this is what we got...

I didn't even try to brush it out. We just went directly to the bath tub and worked this mess out with a lot of shampoo and conditioner and most importantly love!