Mar 03 2010
Who is that Girl?
Last week, Abby had an allergic reaction to something (we think it may have been a lotion she used). Her face turned bright red as if she had a bad sunburn. The next morning, her face was completely swollen. The swelling so altered her appearance, she looked like someone else.
The clinic had no open appointments, so I drove to the military hospital emergency room in dread of what awaited me. My past experiences in the emergency room have not been good.
I expected to enter a crowded room of people and wait and wait and wait. I expected to take a prescription to the pharmacy and wait and wait and wait. Four hours waiting while suffering with a kidney stone; four hours waiting with a child with croup.
I prayed on the way. “Lord, please help this not be 4 hours of waiting.”
When we arrived, there were only three people in the waiting room. The nurse called within minutes. We went back to see the doctor within a half hour. Abby was scared. He was funny and made her laugh.
Her tests for strep came back negative. He gave us a prescription to decrease the swelling and relieve the itching. The pharmacy wait was less than a half hour.
Praise the Lord! We were home again in two hours.
The swelling took 4 days to go down completely. Abby returned to school with her face still slightly swollen and bruised. I told her she would be asked about her face over and over again throughout the day, and she needed to be ready with an answer.
At school, everyone wanted to know what happened to her face. She told them quite sincerely, “I got in a fight.”
