Every Mom's dream, right??
I am still in shock that's how our experience went!
Luckily, It wasn't your typical ER visit. Emme had a pretty bad bug bite that was turning her arm puffy and red. I knew that wasn't normal, so we went in first thing Monday morning after talking to the Nurse help line at Keesler. They said she was probably having an allergic reaction to the bite and to go ahead and get her seen.
As soon as I finished filling out the last of paperwork, we were seen right away for her vitals. Right as we finished that up they sent us right to our room. That was definitely a good sign we were going to be seen soon .
To get Emme excited and not shy about the experience, I told her it was her turn to go to the Doctor and not Mommy's. We visit the Dr for my OB appointments weekly, so Emme was thrilled that SHE got to sit on the patient table, instead of Mama. She even loved wearing her patient bracelet. We love playing with her little Dr's kit at home, so when I said she was going to play that with the actual Dr, she got even more excited.
Sure enough, the nice Dr was in to see us as soon as we got settled in our room. She confirmed that she was having an allergic reaction to some sort of insect bite and proceeded to mark Emme's arm with pen so we can monitor if the swollen area grows larger. If it did, I was to give her antibiotics. The Dr was happy to hear Emme wasn't being affected by the bite other than the swollen red area.
And that was it.
Our visit was over in the actual ER in less than 20 min. We walked over to the hospital pharmacy to pick up her prescription of Benadryl and antibiotics and we out before we knew it!
A total of 40 min start to finish!
I was one happy Mama.
In the beginning of the visit, I promised Emme if she did good, we would go eat breakfast at a restaurant.
THAT part was the disaster, actually.
Note to Mommy self- Never give Benadryl BEFORE going to a Restaurant (or any place).
No more than an hour after giving her a dose, she was a cranky tired girl who wanted nothing to do with food or Mama. IHOP was a mistake and we took our food to go and went straight home.
The very next day, her swollen forearm went down considerably, meaning we didn't have to use the antibiotics! (which is great because Dr did mention a nasty side affect would have been diarrhea :/)
I don't have any cool pictures to show of the adventure but here are are some recent photos of the cute stink.
I am still in shock that's how our experience went!
Luckily, It wasn't your typical ER visit. Emme had a pretty bad bug bite that was turning her arm puffy and red. I knew that wasn't normal, so we went in first thing Monday morning after talking to the Nurse help line at Keesler. They said she was probably having an allergic reaction to the bite and to go ahead and get her seen.
As soon as I finished filling out the last of paperwork, we were seen right away for her vitals. Right as we finished that up they sent us right to our room. That was definitely a good sign we were going to be seen soon .
To get Emme excited and not shy about the experience, I told her it was her turn to go to the Doctor and not Mommy's. We visit the Dr for my OB appointments weekly, so Emme was thrilled that SHE got to sit on the patient table, instead of Mama. She even loved wearing her patient bracelet. We love playing with her little Dr's kit at home, so when I said she was going to play that with the actual Dr, she got even more excited.
Sure enough, the nice Dr was in to see us as soon as we got settled in our room. She confirmed that she was having an allergic reaction to some sort of insect bite and proceeded to mark Emme's arm with pen so we can monitor if the swollen area grows larger. If it did, I was to give her antibiotics. The Dr was happy to hear Emme wasn't being affected by the bite other than the swollen red area.
And that was it.
Our visit was over in the actual ER in less than 20 min. We walked over to the hospital pharmacy to pick up her prescription of Benadryl and antibiotics and we out before we knew it!
A total of 40 min start to finish!
I was one happy Mama.
In the beginning of the visit, I promised Emme if she did good, we would go eat breakfast at a restaurant.
THAT part was the disaster, actually.
Note to Mommy self- Never give Benadryl BEFORE going to a Restaurant (or any place).
No more than an hour after giving her a dose, she was a cranky tired girl who wanted nothing to do with food or Mama. IHOP was a mistake and we took our food to go and went straight home.
The very next day, her swollen forearm went down considerably, meaning we didn't have to use the antibiotics! (which is great because Dr did mention a nasty side affect would have been diarrhea :/)
I don't have any cool pictures to show of the adventure but here are are some recent photos of the cute stink.
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