Deja Vu

Day 257 – Today we had a serious scare. My daughter had a shot of Ouzo the night before and found out the hard way she is very allergic to it. This morning I took her to the train station and we both realized that her face are swollen. We decided to take a detour via the emergency room in our hospital just to make sure all is fine before she is going to her military base.  Considering her anaphylactic shocks history, they decided to keep her for a few hours for observations and to pump her full of antihistamines and steroids, just to make sure the allergic reaction will not get out of control. It was a very scary déjà vu for the both of us. We stayed there for a few hours and then they released her but told her to take it easy for the next three days and stay close by, and of course gave her large amounts of steroids and antihistamines to take every day. It takes this kind of a second brush with an allergic event to realize how much we are on edge about that, and also how serious it can get. It is not just a hair dye anymore it can be different foods as well, and this is by far more un-nerving. Only last week we saw a specialist and she ordered a skin patch tests for her, but it is still two months away. We have to know what exactly she is now allergic to, so to make sure she will not get it by mistake. This weekend episode made it all too clear. We still not in the clear, we just hope we are, if we will get through tomorrow without any event, we will be more at ease and can safely assume that it is not going to take the shock route, but we still have to go through tonight and of course it is very stressful. I can only say, she looks ok right now and has no problems breathing, so I hope I will be able to report tomorrow that we had an un-eventful night. I am praying for a good night sleep.

I am thankful we decided to go to the emergency room; I don’t even want to think of what might have happened if she’d just go to her base. I am thankful for an easier afternoon, she was very tired and scared, but ok and this is not a given. I am thankful I was with her so she didn’t have to go through this very stressful episode alone; it is not a burden a 19 years old girl should bear at all and definitely not alone.