Scary sick

I had planned on having all the party recipes on here by now, but I have been distracted.

My fifteen year-old daughter came home from camp with an ear infection, and on Monday, her eardrum ruptured. After several days on the amoxicillin for that, she suddenly broke out in an itchy rash all over – it turns out she’s allergic to amoxicillin. We stopped the amoxicillin and went back to the doctor, who informed us that her infection had moved to her outer ear, and things were so swollen that he couldn’t see how the eardrum was doing, so we had to go to a specialist. The specialist said her eardrum is healing well, but decided to go aggressive on the infection, so he put her on a heavy-duty antibiotic, antibiotic ear drops, and some strong decongestant.

And then she fainted dead away in the hallway, bashing her nose on the hardwood. We don’t think that had anything to do with the meds and a lot to do with her not eating all day, but the doctor said to stop taking the decongestant just in case.

And, my point is that it’s been a busy, distracting week. That fainting thing? One of the scariest moments of my life, rivaled only by the time my now-twelve year-old ran out into the street in front of a big red truck when he was two.

But things are on the mend with my girl, so I’ll be finishing up the party recipes soon!