The allergist.

today was the day that William had his allergist appointment.  We left the house about 7:45 and arrived one minute late.  Not to bad since we were aiming to leave at 7:30.  I have to be thankful for mom and dad letting us sleep over and for dad taking Evelyn to school as there would have been no other way for us to have made the appointment.

The appointment went about as I thought it would, including a lot of history and talking about what was going on.  After talking to one of Evelyn's friend who had gone through the testing I had an idea of what the testing was going to be like and it was not as bad as I thought.

I was worried about how William was going to take it but he did a great job sitting still in my lap and putting his head on my shoulder.  The end results were that he has a peanut allergy, they really didn't test him for a lot.  We are still not to give William strawberries until after our followup. To be sure that there really is no issue though she thinks that maybe it was the antibiotics that caused it. I am hoping that we will challenge it in the office at the next visit.  She mentioned a skin test but not a challenge specifically.

fter the appointment we went to the clinic at work to have his blood drawn (a real blood draw) not a finger stick.  William cried a lot as one would expect but he did a great job after taking a lot of blood for such a little guy.  We walked around the clinic to say hi to a few people but William was very tired.  So we dropped him off at school (luckily) he did not fall asleep in the car.