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medical clinic there was a clinic about 5 minutes away from our cabin but it was closed 1 weekday per week it happened to be the day i needed them my ankle was examined and x rays were taken and we were told it was sprained and to keep resting and icing it this is what my bruising looked like the second day by the time the reunion was over i could bear weight enough to get from the couch to the kitchen or bathroom but it was still quite swollen and the bruise was pretty awesome this picture doesn t do it justice from about 2 inches above my ankle to the top of my foot there was a large purple bruise then from the middle of my foot down to my toes my food was a beautiful purplish green when we arrived home about 3 or 4 days after my fall it started to feel worse i could no longer bear weight and it was painful almost all the time i decided to go have it checked out again the doctor that saw me here at home was very impressed with my bruises i bruise really well he told me that what i had was a high grade sprain these are the kinds of sprains that people will sometimes say are worse than a break i m guessing it s because you can do something for a break but all they can really do for this kind of sprain is put you in a boot and tell you to take pain medications the boot was pretty much a miracle i went from not being able to get around without using crutches to walking with not much pain at all i wore it for about 4 weeks the sole boot is between 1 and 2 inches thick so i had to wear a shoe that was close that that tall on my other foot i only had one so i wore the same shoe my black doc marten mary janes with an extra sole insert for 4 weeks this was hard for me i really like shoes even though i was able to walk i was not supposed to walk for long periods of time so whenever i had the chance i took advantage of carts i think the kids loved it almost as much as i did i am a pretty good cart driver if i do say so myself after 4 weeks in the book i was downgraded to this beautiful brace which allowed me to move more easily and wear any shoes i wanted well almost any some shoes just didn t work and i could wear pants again not just shorts and capris pants good thing this injury happened during the summer i also started physical therapy i told my doctor that i needed to be able to run again because i had missed it and missing it was making me sad and when i am sad i self medicate with cookies and chocolate i blame this injury on me not making my goal of maintaining most of my weight loss from last year all is not lost i had hoped to maintain a weight between 145 and 150 i m currently maintaining between 153 and 158 which isn t horrible at physical therapy i learned 7 exercises and stretches that helped to strengthen those tiny little muscles in my ankle after 2 weeks of pt i was given the go ahead to start running again with the brace on i had not run in 8 weeks i learned the hard way a few years ago that you should take twice as long to return to running the distances that you were accustomed to running regularly as you were unable to run so i planned for a slow 16 week recovery i ve taken it really slow as i ve had a few colds and other illnesses that slowed my progress but by the end of the year i ll feel like i ve fully recovered and hopefully i won t have to deal with the runner s knee that i had back in 2012 that was a sad sad lesson but i think i ve learned it well i ve set a new goal for next year 12 races in 12 months it s going to be awesome posted by kate at 5 14 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest monday november 30 2015 life s an adrenaline rush and sometimes it includes a shot of epinephrine soooooooooo have you missed us since july sorry i have no good reasons other than life has been different around here and i m still kind of finding my way through it i ll start with what happened this weekend and then i ll do some updates of how life has changed around here over the past few months five year old b and i got to sleep overnight at the hospital we went to our city santa parade where we enjoyed free cookies and cocoa and watched a short parade that ended with santa and mrs clause riding past in a carriage after waving at santa and then waving at the policeman at the end of the parade we headed back to our car our b boy showed me his lip it was puffy and bleeding a little i questioned him about how it got that way did someone hit him someone being his brother i supposed no did he fall and hit his lip on something no did a bug bite him no hmmmmm that s weird i didn t really think it was an issue about 30 seconds later b slipped and fell and although he said he was okay all 3 kids will say that while they are still on the ground or even in the process of falling i m okay by the time we got to the car b was crying ken did his best to comfort him we made it home i got some food for the kids the cookie and cocoa at the parade were really just the first course of dinner we discovered that b had climbed into our bed ken and i laid down on either side of our quiet little boy and tried to figure out what was wrong he really wouldn t say much i noticed that his lip was still puffy and pointed it out to ken b didn t want to put ice on it but he was willing to eat an otter pop i figured otter pops are ice and he d be sucking on it thus the ice would be on his fat lip sometimes i m awesome at doctoring and he got out of our bed and followed ken into the kitchen this is where things got weird or weirder since a quiet b with a fat lip is already weird before ken could get the otter pop ready b threw up on the kitchen floor chaos ensued for a few minutes was that the problem did b have a stomach bug our oldest son j walked around proclaiming loudly that he didn t want to get sick our daughter just wants to be part of the action and she was none too pleased that she had to sit with me far away from the vomit for 5 minutes while ken cleaned up and got b situated on the couch once on the couch b seemed to be okay he d cough but he never threw up again after 20 or so minutes he started complaining that his tummy hurt he said the pain was in his belly button i got him a warm rice bag to see if that would help he didn t like it but when i offered the chance to get in a warm bath to see if that might help sooth the pain he was feeling he jumped at the chance once in the tub things got weirder i noticed a hive on the back of his shoulder as i was helping him take his clothes off soon he was scratching hard enough to draw blood and there were hives just about everywhere his back neck arms and thighs oddly to me the hives were only where the water had touched him later i told ken that i wondered if the hives had something to do with something in the water he told me he wondered the same thing hives we ve dealt with hives benadryl ken said i ran and got the boy some benadryl i was still uneasy this just didn t make sense too me all of these symptoms seemed so disjointed nothing really fit together for me nothing screamed we re all part of the stomach flu and so i told ken that i thought we needed to take b to see a doctor soon b and i were making the trek 15 or 20 minutes to the closest urgent care facility offered by our healthcare provider that was still open the closest to our house 5 10 minutes away closed at 8 pm on saturdays which is right about the time we would have arrived i got to the insta care and realized that there at that location they had a child specific urgent care i had asked ken to call ahead to get us on the waiting list because sometimes you have to wait hours and i decided to check at the kids care to see if he had spoken to them he had oh the boy with the hives said the receptionist she got us checked in quickly and it wasn t too long before a nurse took us back and started weighing and measuring my boy while she collected his vital information she also was collecting information from me the timeline of what had happened when all the different symptoms presented i find and i hope i m not alone in this that i have a hard time expressing myself well in these types of situations i m watching my little boy deal with some sort of dr jekyll mr hyde illness and i know what happened but they want to know the times how long inbetween this and that i did my best i figure nurses and doctors see a lot of parents like me people doing their best to put into words what weird things are going on with their children the doctor was sitting at a desk about 15 feet away from where i was watching talking to the nurse and i m sure she heard everything i said when she came into the exam room she asked me to tell her the timeline again and asked some follow up questions and then she said that b was presenting with the signs of anaphylaxis not anaphylactic shock but anaphylaxis i looked confused she explained more b had 1 swelling lips and ears i hadn t noticed his ears chances were good that he was having swelling in his mouth as well 2 vomiting 3 stomach cramping abdominal pain and 4 hives i remember the nurse and doctor also discussing his blood pressure and his coloring over the past few days i ve noticed that those are also signs of anaphylaxis here s where my world started spinning even more the doctor told me that because he had multiple symptoms of anaphylaxis he needed an epinephrine immediately and then she would send us to a hospital nearby that had a pediatric unit where he could be observed for a few hours why did this start my world spinning i ve been the mother of a nut allergic child for a year now why didn t i put together that vomiting and stomach pain were part of an allergic reaction let alone why did it take me until he had a body full of hives to figure out there was something wrong it was the vomiting the vomiting confused me but i knew that i had read in all that paper work a year ago that vomiting was indeed a sign of an allergic reaction and wait what did that doctor just say he needed a shot of epinephrine immediately but she just told me that he wasn t in shock had i been doing it wrong little e has come into contact with reacted to an allergen twice since she was diagnosed both times i recognized her symptoms screaming and hives and i have given her the approriate dose of benadryl and then watched her for more symptoms praying that she would breath easily and wouldn t go into shock if she did go into shock i knew what i needed to do epipen to the rescue but if that had ever been needed would it have turned out to be too late should i have used her epipens when i knew she was having a reaction rather waiting for a bad reaction b got his shot he was very proud of himself because in his words i didn t even make one tear within a few minutes he went from being the quiet little boy who we found curled up on our bed to jumping around in the exam room shouting about how big and strong he had been when he got the shot he really perked up we waited 20 minutes or so the doctor came in a few times to check on him his lip looked better his hives were still there but there seemed to be less of them his ears were still swollen his demeanor had certainly changed she spoke to a physician on the pediatric floor of a nearby hospital and he was waiting for us so that b could be observed and monitored for a few hours i told ken that i thought we d be home before midnight so off we went to the hospital my now happy boy and i we eventually made it up to the right floor of the hospital b got to put on hospital pajamas and the nurses got him all set up in his bed they even found him a thomas the tank engine video to watch i got to tell the whole story again this time the doctor said well it s sure a good thing that you knew how to spot anaphylasis at which point i told him that i didn t feel like i had spotted it i took him to the doctor because there was just so many symptoms that i couldn t fit together it didn t make sense to me i also asked him about how i had always dealt with e s allergic reactions he told me that i had done a good job and i shouldn t worry about b he would be fine it wouldn t be too hard to keep him away from nuts since that is what we think the allergen must be because we are already taking precautions to keep e away from them he then said that he wanted to observe b overnight and that he would be released sometime after 9 the next morning i let ken know that we wouldn t be home that night b really wasn t as perplexed as he looked in this picture he s just really good at faces and so there we were spending the night at the hospital we d go home in the morning everything was going to be fine but everything was going to be different even though b was hooked up to monitors all night he still slept pretty great i on the other hand was sleeping on a couch made of mismatched pieces of plywood with a thin layer of vinyl on top of them well not really but you will never hear me say oh you need a guest bed why don t you get one of those couches that they put in hospital rooms the fact that i was sleeping in my clothes didn t help much either i spent a good portion of the night watching my little boy s heart beat pulse blood oxygen and breathing as they were drawn in line form on a computer monitor next to his bed was it normal for his heart rate to be 120 it eventually went down to 108 was that better or worse his blood oxygen levels were 94 to 95 but sometimes when he was snoring or sleeping on his belly they went down into the 80 s but no alarm went off so i assume that it wasn t too low for too long his breathing was the most interesting to watch he had pretty steady breaths for a while 16 to 17 breaths per minute they looked like little flat topped mountains separated by valleys then he started to snore and the flat top mountains turned into a row of cursive lower case r s i wonder if the doctors cared that my 5 year old was snoring his brother who sleeps on the top bunk of their bunk beds had told us that he snored but it never really meant anything to me until i heard it myself and watched it on the screen no one ever came in to investigate and he was sleeping very well so i guess all of those things fall into the norm for a 5 year old boy every two hours or so the nurse and her assistant would come in and check on b take his temperature and blood pressure and then check several of the worst hive covered areas every 4 hours or so they would bring in some benadryl and we d have to figure out how to wake him up i realized that i really haven t ever needed to wake him up and i m grateful because he is a really deep sleeper at about 6 45 b sat straight up in bed and said mom i ve got to go potty i jumped up unplugged all his monitors as his nurses had taught me to do and helped him to do what he needed to do since he had stayed up 3 hours past bedtime i figured he d go back to sleep but i was wrong it was wake up time we got him hooked back up the the monitor an...