365: Day 229- First Visit to the ER

Well, we almost made it four years without a trip to the ER. That lucky streak ended when we had to take Silas to Boston Children's Hospital today. He woke up yesterday morning with some serious redness and irritation on the bottom half of his face. By the late afternoon his face was swollen and blisters were starting to form. This morning he was completely lethargic and wouldn't get out of bed. We got him to eat a little fruit and drink some water while Derek talked to the on-call pediatrician. It was very sad to watch Silas watching Zoe play in the backyard :(

He was so miserable and oozy.

After talking to the pediatrician for the second time, Derek and Silas headed over to the ER while I tried to find someone to watch Zoe. Thankfully Julia was at home cooking, so I dropped Zoe off at her house and headed to BCH.

Silas was such a trooper. Both ER attendings came in to assess him independently. They agreed that he has some kind of contact dermatitis, which means that he is having an allergic reaction to something that he came into contact with (but we don't know what it is). The possibilities that we came up with was either something at the beach on Friday, or the spicier than intended pork rub that we put on a tenderloin on Friday night for dinner.

They prescribed a hydrocortisone lotion and sent us on our way with a list of things to watch out for. By this evening he had new, small blisters forming on his arms and legs. We'll be calling his PCP first thing in the morning...

Being a parent is really hard sometimes!!!

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