She made me sad today!

You all know as any good grandma should, I think my granddaughter is the most beautiful baby in the world. But today she made me sooo sad! She had been on an antibiotic and after a few days she started reacting to it. She was allergic to penicillin. I had been busy all week, but had planned to go spend some quality time with my sweet little princess. Imagine my shock when this is what I saw.

Her face was very swollen when she woke up in the morning. But I took this picture after her nap, when she was a little less swollen. Nathan and I could not get over how bad she looked.
She wouldn't eat or drink a thing. I really started worrying about her getting dehydrated. She had a little raccoon mask across her eyes. She was just sad.
She was so miserable. She didn't know what she wanted. She would cry for food, then when we would try to give it to her, she would really cry hard. She played a little on the floor, and Uncle Nate actually got her to smile, just a little.

Finally I was so worried I had Erin call the doctors office and take her in. They freaked out and said Issy had this skin disease called "erythema multiforme". They apologised for misdiagnosing it and gave her a prescription to help it. They told her she could get worse and if she did get her to the hospital fast. So Nathan and I were heading home, but Erin was pretty shaken up and I was worried sick. We went and met them at the pharmacy. Issy's spots had lightened up some. But she looked worse than the picture is showing. Issy wanted to be held, and I wanted to hold her. My back started hurting and I needed to sit down. There were people sitting in the chair area, and I told Erin watch it clear out when we sit down. Sure enough it just took a few short minutes for us to be alone with our sick little baby.
She actually started drinking while we waited and we were thrilled. She had a bad case of the chills so we had to wrap Grandmas sweater around her so she would quit shaking. Erin took her home and gave her the medicine, and in about 2 hours it started to get a little better. She actually sat in our laps and laid her little head down on us, she never snuggles, so that was nice. The whelps started to get dark red then lighter in the middle, they left a bruise looking thing under most of them. In this tub picture you can see 3 finger shaped hives on her shoulder blade. She was so much better in this picture.
Then all of the sudden she wanted to eat, she drank, and she laughed and smiled again.
Erin has to be careful because she could get worse. but she did seem much better and very happy when we left.