4 trips to the doctor in 1 day!

Busy day yesterday. Eva had been throwing up all weekend but seemed better on Monday so I didn't take her in but when she started throwing up again on Tuesday I called the doc. and got a Wednesday morning appointment.

Tuesday afternoon on my way in to my radiation treatment I biffed it big time in the parking lot but besides being a very humbling experience (nothing like a grown adult sprawled out half way across a road bleeding from 5 differenct places) it was also rather painful. I decided to just deal with it. Well by evening I was in a deal of pain and was able to pinpoint better what hurt most. It was my wrist and one of my knees. So I needed an x-ray of my hand. In all the plethera of doctors I have on speed dial I don't happen to have a family practice doc. and the urgent care clinics won't take Medicaid so I was told to find an ER. I thought it would be better to do in the middle of the day rather than middle of the night because no normal people go to ER's, they go to thier regular doctor if at all possible, so I thought it would be less busy. Wendesday noonish I head in for an x-ray (fractured wrist).

Then I have to head in for my daily radiation treatment which I was expecting but was just one more doctor to see in an already to-may-doctors day. At least I didn't hit gravel this time.

While Eva was waiting to be seen at the pediatricians Christopher texts me to say that Belle has a rash at school. I figure it's no big deal, it's not like they kicked her out of class and she needs to come home. Noonish while I'm waiting on x-ray he says shes itchy now too. I suggest he run to Walmart for some Benedryl. She was on an anti-biotic for a UTI and they said if she got itchy to give Benedryl. Still I think it's no big deal. I come home from radiation at 5:10, just after the pediatricians office has closed and Belle is sitting on the couch covered from head to toe, I mean scalp to toe-nails in pink polka dots. They were growing so fast that they were beginning to blur together into one large itchy mass. Downtown we go to Cook Children's ER/Urgent Care. She was reacting to the anti-biotic, big time. Next time, Christopher knows not to say 'she has a little rash but rather 'our daughter is so covered in itchy spots that she needs to see a doctor pronto' so that I'll take it seriously.

Busy day. Glad it's over.