Lowry Family Life

Lowry Family Life

10.28.2012

Balloon Face

Can you guess what movies these pictures are from?


The first one is from "Hitch" and the second one is from "Pure Luck." I remember laughing so hard during these scenes in the movies. Yesterday I found out very quickly that they are more funny in a movie than in real life!

We went to Midway/Heber yesterday. While we were driving up James and Lynnlee were chowing down on trail mix. We stopped at my in-law's house to do a couple of things and James and Lynnlee played on the play ground for about 20 minutes. Lynnlee's skin was splotchy when I was putting her in her car seat when it was time to go. I didn't think too much about it but after putting James in I noticed that Lynnlee had welts and hives all over. Then her lips, ears, and eyes started swelling like balloons. Kind of like in the movies. We drove to the nearest store and got Benadryl and gave it to her. The swelling got so bad that her eyes were almost swollen shut and her lips were the size of monkey lips. We took her to the ER and they gave her Epinephrine and more Benadryl. Thankfully my Mom met us there and took James and Kaden. Lynnlee's swelling went down slowly and by bedtime she was back to normal. We are giving her Benadryl for the next 24 hours and it makes her wired and hyper.

So we don't really know if the allergic reaction was from the trail mix or maybe she got stung while playing. We are leaning toward the trail mix because she never cried like she got stung and we couldn't find a mark anywhere on her body from a sting.

Hopefully I can get her into an allergist to find out what caused it and get some peace of mind.