Daycare called again today. Apparently taking my advice they have Evie and one other child with a milk allergy sitting at a table by themselves. While eating lunch the teacher noticed that Evie's eyes were getting red and watery and then a few minutes later she broke out in hives and her other eye swelled up this time but it was worse than last time. This time she was having difficulty swallowing and was drooling on herself so her doctor's office said use the epi pen and take her to the ER, which we did. The epi pen was amazing and allowed her to get back to normal in seconds but did start to wear off as we waited at the ER.
Once we got to Children's ER they gave her steroids and some benadryl to try and continue to positive effects of the epi and prevent a replapse. We also had to stay there for several hours to make sure nothing more severe happened when the epi did wear off (usually wears off in 4 hours or less). She had a really rotten afternoon, as you can guess.
This time, daycare gave her a canned 'graduates' meal that we gave them that definitely does not contain milk/milk products. They also initially said they gave her mixed fruit and mixed veggies with margarine on them. For those of you who don't know margarine does have milk in it. When we first found out about Evie's allergy, I also thought margarine didn't have milk in it (although I read the ingredients BEFORE serving her anything with margarine) so I can kind of understand not knowing that. However, a little while later daycare called and said that Evie had not actually gotten her plate of veggies and fruit before this incident occurred which leaves us with only a few options:
- Evie is allergic to something in the food she did eat that she has never had a reaction to before
- Evie stole some food from the other little kid
- Evie got some real milk in her soy-milk only sippy cup
- margarine got on her plate or food off someone else's hands who touched the margarine and then her stuff (good gravy, I hope not because then she will never be 'safe' if it is a really severe contact allergy)
- they got confused or fibbed in the chaos and Evie was given veggies with margarine
So my friends, THIS is actually worse than my last post in which I said my worst fear was realized. When the allergist gave me the epi pens he was like 'you should never have to use these but I'll give them to you anyway just as a matter of procedure'. She had two bad reactions in 2 days resulting in one trip to the ER and lots of medication, not to mention chaos and missed work for mommy and daddy and stress on everyone.
I honestly don't know what to do. With a child who has a serious allergy like this I don't want to just start over somewhere new, because most likely any school that even has an opening right now for her is either ridiculously expensive or not great (otherwise other people would be using it). I also still mostly-trust most of the people where she is, so it's kind of better the devil you know than the one that you don't. HOWEVER, I can't handle this kind of stress and fear. What happened today was really serious, vastly more so than what happened Wednesday and I don't know what we'll do. I do believe in my heart that no one thought they were giving her milk/dairy, but if they aren't able to keep track of what has dairy in it, that won't be enough. It's just not very feasible to switch daycares with little or no notice. I'm so worn out from this I can't even be properly pissed off right now.
In other news, Evie still has two teeth coming in--they made an appearance about 2 weeks ago and haven't done much since. That will bring her grand total up to: 6 whole teeth. She also has her new mary jane styled crocs with OSU jibbits all ready for the game tomorrow.
Happy slightly (by one hour) early birthday daddy and Laurie!
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