Evil amoxicillin

Yesterday was Korbyn's last day to take her amoxicillin for her ear infection.  Around 9 a.m. I went in her room at daycare to give it to her and I noticed she had what looked like a mosquito bite behind her ear.  I told her teachers just to watch it and see what happens.  A little while later they said that it had gone away but now she has another one behind her neck.  Great. 

Saturday night I had called the nurse advice line because when I undressed her for her bath that evening I noticed she had small red dots all over her chest, stomache and back.  Immediately I thought she was probably having an allergic reaction to the medicine because I'm allergic to it and so is my niece, so I was waiting to see if she would also have it.  They said it sounds like just a side effect and not an allergy but if anything changes to call back.  It was gone by morning so I thought "GOOD!  she's not allergic!" but yesterday definitely changed things.  By the time a nurse called me back (I absolutely HATE that about calling the dr.'s office, I wish you could talk to someone right away ALL the time!) she had a blotch about 6 inches long and 3 inches wide across the back of her neck and it was spreading to her face, it looked awful.  They said it sounds like she has hives and that it probably is an allergic reaction and to go ahead and bring her in as soon as possible.  Of course I was still disgusting becuase I had gone to the gym that morning and had minimal makeup and just felt gross.  But I took her home, changed and we were on our way.

Well I saw this goober of a dr. (no wonder he was the only one who had numerous appointments open that day!).  Not that I don't think he was a good dr., but his bedside manner had plenty of room for improvement.  He just said things that could have really offended people.  I kind of take everyone with a grain of salt and see no need to make a big deal when not necessary.  Even at the daycare all the girls were like "why aren't you freaking out more?  You sure are being calm about all this!!!"  I guess I get that from my mom who always seems to keep my feet on the ground :)  Anyway, this dr. starting talking and joking about religion and saying stuff like "maybe God is catholic, ha ha" I honestly was not paying attention to what he was saying so I'm not sure exactly what he was talking about.  But then he kind of jokingly asked what religion we were that we must be Baptist or Methodist...WHAT?!  Where did you get that from!?  So making light of the situation I said "no, we're Lutheran" and kind of kissed Korbyn on the head.  He said "Oh ha, ha well then that's why you must have hives, that's your punishment!" and then proceeded to touch my forehead and made the sign of the cross on me!!!!!!!  What the hell is wrong with this man???!!!!  I told my mom about it and she was like "WHAT!?  You need to tell someone about him!"  But I'll just know that next time I will definitely NOT see him.

I told him that I occassionally put rice cereal in her last bottle before bed for the past couple of weeks and could that possibly be causing the hives?  (because I know of a little boy who did get hives from rice cereal) he said that it could be that or the amoxicillin but her ear was cleared up so go ahead and stop both.  I'm 99% positive it's the amoxicillin but I'm not going to put the rice cereal possibility to bed yet, so we'll have to see.  Hopefully she's all cleared up by Friday because she has her 4 month check up and her shots, but if she's not we'll have to reschedule.

 This is right before her bath last night, poor thing!  I know it itches, when I hold her she constantly rubs her face into my shoulder and when I'm not she always has her hands up by her face rubbing it.  And of course she's too small to take benadryl, so she has to just tough it out!  But I put a cold washcloth on them and it seems to help.

I also asked him, "Is she fat for her age?  Everyone always tells me how fat she is!"  He looked at the chart and kind of chuckled and said "Uhhh, ya...she's pretty heavy, she's above the 100%!" Then I noticed that he was considering her a 3 month old and I said "well, she'll be 4 months Friday does that change anything?  He looked and said "well that bumps her down to 95%!"  LOL!  We're gonna have a sumo wrestler on our hands in a couple of months!  That's ok, I love her rolls :)