hospital

ahhh we never know what life will bring us....

So friday i had a blemish in my ear and it got infected and drained. The next day the skin behind my ear started to hurt and the blemish drained again. I woke up on Sunday and my whole neck hurt and it hurt to move my neck. I started taking motrin that evening and on monday monring my mom took me to my pediatrician the next morning. He said it might be staph and took a culture to send to the lab. He gave me an antibiotic and and said it was definitely a cellulitis infection in my skin below my ear and my neck. He told my mom to watch it carefully and call the next morning if anything changed. In all, it hurt all over my face, head, and neck the next morning. I went back to my pediatrician and he said that he was going to call the infectious disease specialists at the ER of our local hospital. He basically wanted to ask them what they thought and see if they wanted me to go to the ER and see them. Well, they wanted to see me. So i went to the ER with my mom (my wonderful youth pastor met us there) and we waited. I told them everything about ten times until they finally decided what to do. Then the craziness really started...

A nurse walked in with an attitude the size of her IV needles. The ER was swamped that day and she had to give IVs to babies. Never fun but that did not mean to she had to be snotty to me. Anyways, she couldn't find the vein in my left arm (after fishing around for it, ouch!) so she moved to my right arm. She found the vein and got the blood work but then the needle infiltrated (pulled out of my vein and was just lying under my skin). We didn't know that though. When she gave me the saline my whole arm blanched (turned white very quickly). She thought it was cool and did it again not knowing that the needle wasn't in my vein. She gave me the antibiotic and my arm started hurting a LOT. I told my mom and she got the nurse and she said it was fine. The doctor came in and said it was fine. Then the doctor came back (after my mom dragged her in the room because i was crying in pain) and looked at the bottom of my arm that was cherry red, a sure sign of an infiltrated needle. She got the nurse and she took the needle out and sent me on up to the pediatric floor of the hospital. The nurses were much nicer and they numbed up my left hand, with numbing cream, so i wouldn't feel the needle. They found the vein and i thought that the craziness would end. It did not.....

They started giving me the antibiotic and i was fine for the first hour and half but then my head started itching and my scalp turned bright pink. I thought it was because i missed my shower that day because i was in the hospital. Well, that wasn't why because my whole torso started itching and it, also, turned bright pink. I told my mom and she freaked out. She went right into the other room and told the neartest person. They said my nurse was on a different floor but she would be back in just a few minutes. Well, that wasn't fast enough. My mom describes it as she was watching my face swell up and get blotches right before her eyes in a matter of minutes. It took about thirty seconds for my mom to go right back out there and inform them that her daughter needed to see a nurse NOW and she didn't care if it was her "official" nurse or not. The other nurse person came in and said that this happens to a lot of people who get this antibiotic. She stopped the antibiotic and gave me benedryl and and started the antibiotic again a little slower. I feel alseep immediately from the benedryl but when i woke up the next morning (don't worry i did not sleep through the whole night, the nurses would not let me and i was in a bit of pain) and they started the second dose of the medecine and i sat up i felt like i was having an asthma attack. My chest hurt and it was hard to take deep breaths. My mom RAN into the other room and freaked out on the nurses. She came in and listened to me breath, and cough, and said they were gonna wait to see if it got any worse. Then the doctor came in and did and said the same thing. Me and my mom are thinking "wait until what i stop breathing or turn blue or something falls off?!" Finally, my Pediatricians's partner (technically i'm still under my physician's care and orders even though i'm in the hospital) came in and i told him what happened and he gave complete orders to stop the antibiotic immediately, give me benedryle, and pulmacort (a lung stimulant). After that, they basically said that my face was looking fine so they decided to send me home. I was feeling better after i was there but honestly the antibiotic did more harm than it did good.

I shall keep you all updated concerning my condition. I'm sure i'll be fine. =) thanks for all the prayers!! They mean a LOT to me!! love you all and hope to see everyone of your beautiful faces soon! =)