This was the summer of Strep for our family. Annna got strep throat early in the June. No problem...10 days later with some penicillin and she was all better. Out in California Blake and Sara's Jacob was acting really grumpy and clingy and just not well. Within a week my throat felt awful. I've had strep many times and new right away what was wrong so we left Tahoe a day early and headed down the mountain to the ER for some more of that miracle drug penicillin. We called Blake and Sara, who were back in Hawaii, and let them know what we thought might be wrong with Jacob and they got him on the same antibiotic. Audrey, a few days later, ended up with strep as well. No problem just hand over the prescription and we will be fine. We spent about a week of our vacation in quarantine, but after about a day on penicillin we were all feeling much better. I guess I should mention that Sonnet came down with strep a few days after we left. Poor newly wed. A few days after we got home Anna started showing signs of strep again so we went to the doctor and got her another round of antibiotics, however this time through she started to complain about being itchy. With in 3 hours on day 7 of the antibiotic her legs went from white to blotch/fiery red. She was allergic to penicillin. I took about 10 days to two weeks before everything got out of her system and she wasn't itchy anymore. Let me just say that it was brutal. Anna felt like she was being eaten alive and there was nothing that helped except a luke warm oatmeal bath. She was miserable except when she was in the tub. Needless to say she spent most of the time in one.
This is a blurry picture, but you can make out a line along the pinky finger that shows most of her hand bright red. That would be hives. You can't tell, but her hand is also swollen.
Long story short: no more penicillin for Anna.
On a fun note: Kevin and I were able to go to an Orioles game with some friends. They get tickets from their work and invited us to go along. The seats were in the fourth row just behind the home dug out. We were so close I was worried we might get taken out by a foul ball. We did not use zoom for this next picture.
We had a lot of fun. We are spoiled now and I'm not sure we will be able to go back to the nose bleeder seats after enjoying a game so close up.
One of the last things we did before school started was go hiking with our pals the Johnsons.
4 comments:
what happened to Audrey's nose?
All in All looks like a ton of fun!
Oh, man...I used to get strep ALL the time!!! No fun, though I honestly prefer it to many illnesses because it is so easy to treat, like you said. However, bad luck for Anna!! I can imagine how awful and uncomfortable she was, as I remember when I broke out once in full-body hives. Oooh...it was awful! Glad you figured out the cause and so now you can avoid it in the future!
That hiking spot looks amazing. We'll have to get that location from you.
Great summer sum-up. Wow what great seats for the game! Dad & I love your little family and hope we can find a way to hold you again before too terribly long.
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