So Friday after school H.D. and I had a weird allergy scare. They had dollars for doughnuts at school and I forgot to send money for H.D. to buy a doughnut. Dollars for doughnuts was originally scheduled for a week ago, and then we had a snow day. I spaced the reschedule, so after school we went to Krispie Kreme for a doughnut. After the doughnutty goodness we went to the pet store to look at a few things, and then off to Old Navy. Old Navy always has cheap dog collars and H.D. loves to change Bijou's "necklace" according to holidays and seasons. We were looking for a shamrock "necklace" which we found for 5 bucks. Good deal.
While in Old Navy I heard H.D. sniff and turned to look at him. The whites of his eyes were firey red, and he had hives on his lower eyelids, under his eyes, and moving down to his cheek bone. I freaked out a little, but tried not to scare him. I drove him straight to Peds Express. It was 5 p.m. when we got there. Unfortunately Peds Express does not open until 6 p.m. The ER nurse looked at him and said to sit close by in case we needed her. That made me a little more scared. She mentioned anaphylactic shock and sheeeesh who knew that something like that could happen so fast. We waited an hour and by then the hives were almost gone. The doc looked at him though and could tell that he was reacting to something. H.D. was rubbing his eye again and the hives started to pop back up so that made me feel like I was not crazy. The doc did get to see them. Benadryl, a prescription for an allergy med, nasal spray, and singular and we were on our way.
It was snowing...We had to drive to 2 Walgreens locations to finally get one of the prescriptions. It was an interesting Friday.
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