Off to the Doctor….Again
Michelle wasn’t feeling much better today when she got up. In fact, she came to me in the middle of the night and asked me if her hands were cold. She touched my arm and she felt like an icicle! I told her yeah, she was cold! Well, when I told her about it today, she said she didn’t remember getting up during the night. I think she has been sleeping so miserably, she has been doing a bit of sleepwalking.
Mark called the doctor’s office this morning and made an appointment with the pediatrician who has seen Michelle from the time she was born. I was happy with this because I wasn’t real confident in the earlier diagnosis.
We saw Dr. Kaplan shortly after two, and he looked Michelle over. He told us that sometimes rashes are just about impossible to figure out. He ordered a blood draw and put a rush on it. He wants to make sure Michelle has no infections or inflammation. He said the results will be in tomorrow and he will decide on treatment. Tentatively, he will prescribe a low dose steroid just to eradicate the rash. After all the running about for this, I think this course of action will be good. In the meantime, Michelle has discovered that staying cool and holding a bag of ice in her hands on and off alleviates the itching and burning she has felt the past couple of days. Poor kid!
I did take a photo of Michelle’s hands ast night. You aren’t going to put that on your blog, are you? I assured her, no, I wasn’t. I wanted an image just in case the doctor’s office said we didn’t need to come in today.
I did take a grand total of two photos today. They were of a barn with lots of hay in it. The owner sells bales of straw and hay. The first photo I took just because it was “that time of day”when the sun pours on that gorgeous golden hue and everything that is photographed suddenly becomes a work of art! I just loved the golden hue of the hay.
The second photo I took was from another perspective just to show my readers just how “much!” hay was there!
Well, hopefully by tomorrow at this time, Michelle will be feeling much better!