Horses

My girls LOVE horses!! They will do just about anything I want them to do if it means they get to ride one. Luckily we have some great friends who have a couple of horses and they live about a half a mile away from our house. 

Harper was ready for her turn! She was so excited that she kept escaping into the ring while Marlee was having her turn. She would scream bloody murder when I would catch her and take her back out.

Marlee was so nice and let Harper ride with her. Of course Harper threw a fit about this as well. She is definitely an independent little thing. Shae would rather have Harper ride the horse that we have in the basement. He feels much more comfortable when she's on that one:) Thanks Shane for always letting us ride your horses!!

Amoxicillin

Harper was prescribed amoxicillin last week for an ear infection. In my family amoxicillin is like another member of the family. She was on her eighth day of the medicine when we noticed some small red spots all over her body. We kept an eye on them for a few hours in which time they grew a significant amount. Shae took her to the doctors and was told that is was an allergic reaction to the antibiotic and to stop taking it and give her Benadryl every 6 hours. This was Harper after the doctors and her first dose of Benadryl.

This was Harper 4 hours after that first dose. Of course you can't tell but she was miserably itching her whole body for the ENTIRE night!

The next morning this is what we found when we got her out of bed. Her eyes were almost completely swollen shut, her hands and feet were three times their normal size and she had purplish/reddish welts all over her body. We took her right into the ER because her amazing uncle Josh (an ER doctor himself) was super concerned that the swelling might attach her throat. 

The doctors in the ER were extremely concerned with the look of the rash and the amount of swelling to her hands and feets so the had some blood work drawn.

Luckily the blood work came back normal and she was diagnosed with a severe allergic reaction to penicillin. After some steroids, two Popsicles and a cute stuffed animal from her nurse we were on our way back home. She is still super swollen, which in was told would subside in a few days, but she is slowing returning to normal Harper.