late night drama

Y'all.  We are pretty sure Lucas is allergic to peanut butter.

And we had a Hitch moment in the middle of the night like this one:

Long story short, Lucas had a few bites of peanut butter spread on toast over the course of the last week.  He had 2-3 bites on Monday, 2 bites on Wednesday, and 2 bites on Saturday.  Saturday night, Lucas wakes up at like 11:30 screaming bloody murder and we find him with fire engine red ears and covered in raised hives from his neck down, front and back.  Even his little butt cheeks had hives on them.  It was SO sad.

And this pediatric nurse mommy had NO BENADRYL in the house.  Nada.  None.  Brandon flew to the 24hour Walgreens that is thankfully right down the street and we dosed him up. [Sidebar:  While he was gone, I went into freak out mommy mode and called my mom and woke her up, FaceTimed with her so she could affirm that we didn't need to go to the hospital, and I called up to my floor at work to double check the dose of benadryl to give him.  It was a hot mess.]

We juiced him with benadryl and he finally went to sleep.  

We called the pediatrician to give her a heads up on what had happened, and now we are the proud owners of 2 EpiPen Juniors ($250 worth might I add) and have an appointment with an allergist the first week in May for confirmation testing.  

It was scary and a pretty bad reaction for a first reaction.  But I'm so thankful that he didn't have a true anaphylactic reaction.  And I'm also thankful for a mom that doesn't mind me waking her up in the middle of the night to keep me calm and tell me that I'm a good nurse and a good mom.

So until we hear otherwise, we're avoiding all things nutty!!