Not to be outdone, yesterday Joshua wakes up and comes to my room and says, "Mommy, my arm hurts." I look at it and see a small red place around his elbow that I figure is a mosquito bite so I give him some Benadryl and forget about it. We get up today and it is no longer a small place. It is HUGE!! His arm is swollen almost all the way around. It has little blisters in the center and it is hot to the touch. Now I figure it's a spider bite. I call the doctor and take him in. She says it's either a spider bite, but thankfully not a brown recluse, or the beginnings of an abscess. Ummm, okay. Now what? So, we have antibiotics and I'm supposed to watch it to make sure it doesn't get bigger or he doesn't run a fever. If those things happen I have to take him back to the doctor.
I'm sure our new doctor is thinking that I am one of those moms who takes her kids in at the slightest little thing. I swear I'm not one of those moms, but I've had both my kids in her office in the past 2 weeks for bug bites for crying out loud!! LOL I hope we are done for awhile.
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Poor kids! Poor mommy! Hope they get better soon!
HA! I try not to be one of THOSE moms, too. So, when Sarah had a little red bump on her inner thigh back in May, I ignored it. As the weeks went by, Sarah was becoming very irritable, running low-grade fevers, and just not acting her usual self. Over the next couple weeks, the red bump turned into a big red splotch, then a big red ring. So, off to the doctor. It's a BAD reaction to a tick bite which, according to the doc, causes fevers and severe body aches. To think, if I had taken her in sooner, she would have gotten meds to prevent her misery!
So, when she woke up one morning a month later, with an incredibly swollen eye (nearly swollen shut)and looking like she'd been in a fight, we take her to the only available place on St. George Island, the ER. Doc suggests it's a bug bite and recommends a warm compress and cortizone and says to watch it closely because a serious eye infection could occur. Couple days later when the swelling goes down, we clearly see that she has 3 mosquito bites under and in the corner of her eye.
So, I WILL be one of THOSE moms, now. When it comes to the health and well-being of my girls, I will err on the side of caution. Besides, every trip to the doc I make, he/she is paid VERY well in return!
I agree, go ahead and "be one of those moms". A huge part of motherhood is following your gut when it comes to getting children what they need. I have been in your position, where I feel like I am troubling the doctor, but that is their job. Mothering is a tough enough job without worrying about how a good or bad a mother you are in the eyes of strangers. But it is challenging, not care what other think.
hey same here i got bit by i dont fleas i guess and the same thing on the corner of my i and my chik, and two on my left elbow area and one last one on my right elbow area
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