Sick Babies... :'(

So, some of you already know about Alex and his "rash", but for those who don't... it's no fun being a parent sometimes...Last week Alex got a series of immunizations. At the same appointment, he also was put on amoxicillin for an ear infection. Why they did both, I'll never understand. Should have given us the meds and said come back for the shots later. But they didn't. Which is the cause of most of my frustration and stress. Alex has had a reaction to either the amoxicillin (which is what they decided this is) or one of the shots. Since he got both the MMR and the Varivax at the same time, there was a little confusion for them. Because both can cause breakouts of the disease they are to be preventing, in rare instances. So a week after he gets the shots and starts the antibiotic, he wakes up with a small rash on his torso... At first we think it's prickly heat or something, from it being so warm and him wearing warm jammies to bed (plus he's a hot sleeper). Nope. That's not it, as it started spreading and getting steadily worse over the span of the day. We take him to the er, they are unsure of what it is, and decide that we should treat it like it's chicken pox and call the ped in the morning and have him seen the next day. So we do that. By the time he gets up in the morning it's twice as bad, and only getting worse. I call the ped's office. Leave a message as they're busy. 2 hours later, no call back, so I call again. Leave another message for on call nurse to call me back, this time more urgent. So they call back in about a half hour this time, apologizing for taking so long with the excuse that there's 2 kids in with iv's so all resources have been diverted to them. Acceptabe excuse I suppose. Good thing it's not a severe reaction, otherwise he might be dead by now, shit. So they want to see him, thinking it's an allergic reaction. So they schedule an appt with family practice, as peds is slammed because of afore mentioned children. Take him in an hour later and the dr decides it's an allergic reaction and that we should give him some benedryl to ease any discomfort and help him sleep. So we're now on day 2 of benedryl and it doesn't seem to be doing any good. He woke up this morning looking even worse than he did yesterday. He is acting perfectly normal though, eating fine... sleeping more because of the benedryl and had some nasty diapers as well. Hoping tomorrow he's better than today... otherwise I'm taking him into the civilian er and hoping for the best. Ack... what a long and stressful couple of days it's been. my poor kiddo!