October has been a crazy month so far, starting with October 1st. My Mom called me about 3pm on Monday October 1st when I am at work. I finally call her back around 3:15 and she tells me that Cameron is broken out in hives all over and he is coughing a little bit. I asked her if he had anything new and she said that my dad (not knowing) gave Cameron a bite of a peanut butter cracker at noon. I immediately call the pediatrician and talk to the nurse and she tells me to have my mom give him a dose of Benadryl and take him to the Emergency Room since it was coughing and didn't want any other respiratory problems to happen. We meet them at the ER and Cameron was still coughing a little bit but not too much, he was calm and seemed comfortable. I was a wreck. We got back to a room and they checked him out and said his lungs sounded good and they said they would monitor him for an hour. We ended up being there for probably over 2 hours, because they had some sort of glich in their system. The doctor prescribed Cameron an Epi Pen and referred us on to see an Allergist to confirm his peanut allergy along with anything else.
The next morning I got up early before Cameron to take a shower, because I had an appointment to take my car to the dealership to get the transmission checked out before we headed to Gatlinburg on Wednesday. I got up felt great and once Cameron woke up I just bent over his crib and my back just went out. I was in immediate pain and unable to stand straight up. I painfully picked Cameron up out of his crib, changed his diaper, and set him down and he had to walk out to his high chair. I lifted him up in his high chair and tried to feed him breakfast, but he wasn't having it. He for some reason wasn't in the mood to eat. I sat down on the couch and called Jason and told him I needed help and see if he could come home while I went to the doctor where I work. He was luckily able to leave work and help me out. I left and went to the doctor and called my mom to see if she could help me out that day. The physician assistant said I strained a muscle in my low back and prescribed me some muscle relaxers and ibuprofen and told me to take it easy and stretch. I was in 9-10 pain that day, I was actually in more pain than childbirth, because the epidural was amazing and I was definately wish I had one on that day. When I returned home my mom was there and was taking care of Cameron while I just sat on some ice. She got Cameron down for a nap and went to get my prescriptions and lunch. I then took a nap and tried to relax. If it weren't for Jason and my mom I don't know what I would have done that day. It was horrible.
Wednesday I woke up still not feeling well and not able to stand up straight. It was awful. I managed to get myself packed and everything us packed and together with many many breaks and my poor husband had to load everything up into the car, which took him probably a couple of hours. We ended up getting on the road about 1:20pm, which I thought was pretty good. Cameron did awesome in the car and fell asleep as soon as we got on the road and slept for 3 hours. We made it to Gatlinburg and checked into the cabin and headed to dinner. We were in Gatlinburg Wednesday through Saturday and my back progressively got better each day. By Friday I could stand up straight and didn't have any muscle spasms just had some fatigue. We had a great time and it was nice to get away for a little bit.
Tuesday, October 9th, I took Cameron to the allergist and he had 26+ scratches on his back. It came back that he was allergic to peanuts and dogs. So now we just have to watch everything that Cameron eats especially out of the house at restaurants. It came back that he wasn't allergic to tree nuts, but I am going to avoid all nuts, because of them being processed in the same manufacturers and cross contamination. We also knew that he was allergic to dogs, but its just the saliva, because he is fine with Carson and the rest of the family dogs, unless they lick him, then he just gets little bumps right where they lick him. So now we carrie an Epi Pen wherever we go and make sure we always have Benadryl on hand as well. He has to follow up with the allergist in 1-2 years depending on if he is having any other problems or not. So I just hope and pray that we don't ever have to use the Epi Pens and he never breaks out in hives like that ever again. It was scary.
Since then everything has been back to normal for the most part. My back is feeling better just sore and stiff somedays. Cameron is a wild man. He is now atleast 20 pounds. He is still just long and lean, but is growing and eating like crazy. He loves chicken nuggets, hot dogs, bananas, spaghetti, fettucini alfredo, vegetable crackers, and yogurt. He is a pretty good eater when he wants to be. He is also expanding his little vocabulary. He is now saying "Hey", "All Done", "Hot Dog", "Carson", and continues to say "Dad" and refuses to say "Mom". Although if we ask him where the TV, floor, table, Mom, Dad, Carson, fan, couch, and Cameron he will point to whatever we say. So he is getting smarter every day. Everytime I look at him I can't help but smile and I usually laugh. He just cracks me up. He is though starting to test us and gets in trouble when he doesn't mind. He also is now smiles when we ask him to, gives us a kiss when we ask him. He loves to take laundry out of the dryer. He typically only takes one nap a day and if we are really busy and doesn't take a nap he sleeps almost 12 hours at night. We are down to one bottle just at night and still working on drinking milk out of the sippy cup. Yesterday he drank 8 ounces of milk throughout the day and then today he probably only had 2 ounces of milk. I would like it to be a little more consistant. He has become attached to his pacifier and goes through times where he wants it all the times. Most of the time he only has it when he is about to go to sleep. So we will probably work on getting rid of that soon. He now has 10 teeth. His two 1st year molars on the bottom are in and the two top ones will be in soon. He has been very active this month and has made so many changes. I just can't believe he is already 14 months old. Its crazy. Well, I think that is all and I will do my best not to make it this long until next post. Enjoy the pictures!
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