$200 Dose of Benedryl

Here's the story. Macy woke up yesterday morning with a swollen ear. It looked like some kind of bug bite and it was red and hot and quite large. Finally around 2pm I took her into her doctor (because I have a paranoid mother who tells me horror stories about body parts falling off because of poisonous spider bites)

(For reference: First picture Good ear, second is morning ear, below is afternoon ear and last is night ear. She was even on benedryl all day and it kept getting worse.)


They tell me she is fine and to just give her benedryl and see how it looks tomorrow. I say OK, and take her home. Then at 8:30pm Stephen finally gets home from work and takes a look at it. By this time it is so turgid that it is oozing a clear liquid. Really she looked like Dumbo the elephant. Her ear was huge and swollen and leaking. So we decide to take her to insta-care thinking she needs an antibiotic. The insta-care doctor takes one look at it and tells me to go to Primary Children Emergency Room, because she needs I.V. antibiotics.

I get to Primary Children's at about 10pm and we wait, and wait, and wait.In our room waiting (around 11pm)


Three doctors come into look at it and finally decide it's just an allergic reaction to something and not infected. So they send in the nurse, who coincidentally is the old Miss Utah, who we went to dinner with a couple of years ago at La Caille. (small world)
She gives Macy a single dose of Benedryl and we arrive home by midnight. So I had to pay a $200 emergency room co-pay and then $50 for the other 2 office visits and it turned into a very expensive allergic reaction. But, I'm OK with it, seeing as my daughter still has an ear and it didn't go unnoticed, with a slight chance that it could have been a poisonous spider bite.

FYI the swelling has dramatically gone down and there is no more oozing. YEAH!