Almost a Heart Attack

Ok, moms, I almost had a heart attack tonight. See if you can follow my story: First, some background information: Gavin is finishing up an antibiotic from his double ear infection - Amoxicillin. (Gavin has loved having bubble gum flavored milk, by the way.) He's been on it for a week and a half and has done great. He takes it in his morning bottle and his bedtime bottle. Today was going to be his last dose. So I gave him his morning dose as usual. Ok, so today was such a nice day that I met Kelli and Karis at Kids Planet and took Gavin so we could enjoy the warm weather. We had so much fun (pictures posted later - they're on Kelli's camera) and Gavin acted perfectly happy. We came home, took a long nap; but when he woke up, he wanted to be fussy a little. He watched me get dinner started in the kitchen for a while, and then he got fidgity, so I put him in his Exersaucer to play while I finished. In the meantime, he poops, so I changed his diaper. When I'm putting on his diaper, I noticed a large quarter-sized red blister on the side of his thigh. So, I'm about to freak out, thinking that somehow I've burned him while he was in the kitchen with me. And I feel his forehead, and he feels a little warm. I called mom and told her to stop by on her way home so she could look at it too. I left him completely without clothes, except for his diaper of course. And while I was waiting on her to get to the house, I look all over his body for more places - and I found another blister in the crease of his ankle on top of his foot. When mom gets to the house, we take his temperature, and it was 101 - but that's with a little Motrin in his last bottle. It looked like a spider had bitten him somehow(while we were at the park), but he was wearing a sleeper all day; completely covered. Gavin started acting sick, so Mom and I took him to the Pediatric Night Clinic in Spartanburg. There were a million people there ahead of us, but somehow we only had to wait about 15 minutes before being called. (That's another story in itself.) The lady checks his temperature - and once again, they did it in his ear - just like they did when we took him to the urgent care several weeks ago. It read 98.7. And I nicely explained to the lady that his temperature was taken twice at home right before we came and it was 101 - rectally - like our doctor told us to do. (She could have cared less.) But anyway, we took him into a room and she said to take his clothes off. When mom pulled Gavin's leg out of his sleeper, that quarter-sized red welp was now the size of my hand and all across his thigh! You're talking about heart attack city! Mom and I both yelled out, "Oh my gosh!" My heart was racing. I didn't know what in the world could have bitten Gavin! The nurse jumped up and ran to get the doctor. We told him all the info we could think of: that we were at the park today; that Jason and I both have had the flu this past week; he was finishing his antibiotic... And then the doctor looked at it, and quickly said, it's not a spider bite - there wasn't a puncture mark. It was an allergic reaction to the Amoxicillin! I was in disbelief. Gavin had taken that medicine for 10 days - and we've had no problems (except for some spit-up). Why would he just now react this way to it? And why late this afternoon - when he had it this morning? The doctor frankly said that he can have a reaction even 2-3 days after finishing it; he could get several spots on him; even his face could swell up. All we can do it wait it out, and give him a little Benadryl to help. Now, reading this story doesn't pack the punch as much as it would have if you were actually there. I mean, I was seriously about to panic when Mom pulled his leg out of his sleeper. I took a picture of it when we came home; but by that time, it wasn't as bad as it had been. (I'll post that tomorrow, if I get the chance.) Allergic to Amoxicillin? Who would have guessed after taking it for 10 days and being fine? You know, Gavin already has a touch of Eczema (which is an allergy) and now this? Is my child going to be one of those children who is allergic to everything? To life?