Home from the Hospital...AGAIN!

My sweet brave girl had to go back in the hospital on Sunday. We are home and fine, now...but we had a little scare. On Friday Eden broke out and started itching intensely. I assumed it was a reaction to the pain medicine from her surgery so I immediately discontinued it and started her on Benadryl. Over the next 24 hours it worsened. By then her skin looked like she had a sunburn all over and she was leaving scabs from scratching. Needless to say, she was miserable...while only 3 days post-op from a 5-hour plastic surgery. After trying some Zyrtec with no improvement I called the Children's after-hours number from our post-op instructions (this was Sunday morning).

The plastics resident on-call told me to take her to our local ER (remember, we had surgery in B'ham but live in Atlanta). Long story short, the dr. in the ER said it could be an allergy, but looked just as much like an infection (she was running fever by this point with an elevated heart rate.) They took some blood and hooked her up to an IV to give fluids and antibiotics while she took photos with her phone and sent them to B'ham. The B'ham folks said they couldn't tell from the photos so would have to see her in person. The ER dr. didn't feel comfortable releasing us...so Eden and I ended up being medically transported to Birmingham to the Children's ER. The ER docs there agreed it could be infection or reaction to meds...not sure. Plastics cleared her surgical site so we were turned over to pediatric medicine and admitted.

We spent 2 nights for observation and IV meds. We still don't really know for sure what it was. But I'm thankful they were extra careful. So, we are back home, again. The photo above is Eden being strapped to the stretcher (in her car seat) for the ambulance ride.

She was such a trooper, but cried many tears because she just wanted to go home. We hope this is the end of our saga. Her lip/nose is healing great and we are so grateful for that. It could have been so much worse. I'll continue to keep you posted on our progress.

Love you all!