Hives!

Last week was one of those awful weeks. On Sunday evening our only car died and that night the baby spiked a fever of 102 and was cover in horrible hives. I wanted to rush to the emergency room and had a good friend on stand-by to take Charlotte and I over (even though it was midnight and her 3 little ones would be getting up for school in a few short hours). She advised me to call the dr's office and talk to the on call nurse. When I did that she calmed me down and gave me a list of things to look for. I called my friend back and she told me that she would sleep with her cell phone in case I needed to go in later in the night (isn't she great?) but luckily I didn't.
The next day was spent breaking a fever over and over again and dealing with one car repair company after another. We ended up having to tow the car from one place to another to save a whooping $400.
The car was back by Tuesday night and I took the baby in to the dr just for a check-up. During her ordeal, I'd taken pictures of the hives since they'd come and go and the diagnosis was an acute allergic reaction to something. That scares me. This means that Charlotte is very allergic to some unknown substance that's in my house or around it. We cleaned everything and are now watching her to see if she has another reaction. If it's as severe, we may need to keep an epipen in the house.
Here are some pictures of the poor baby's hives:






The pictures aren't very clear since she's now 5 months and doesn't like to hold still for anything. They were huge and covered her whole body. I hate it when my babies are sick.

And, like I said it was one of those weeks...in the middle of all the illness and car trouble, I was doing my homework as usual and discovered that my assignments didn't match one of my books. It turns out that the great deal I got on one of the books was too good to be true and I was sent an older edition. This has messed me up quite a bit and now I'm scrambling to make up 5 assignments from the past 2 weeks that were done incorrectly.