Hives

This morning we went to a friend's house and there were a lot of children there. We were late and the kids had just finished eating a cookie. No big deal.

Over an hour after we arrived, Maddox broke out with hives all under his chin, neck and on his cheek. He needed hydrocortisone, and we left, because we had to leave anyway.
On the way home his face got worse. Under his chin swelled up a little and the hives spread. He ended up getting Benadryl when we got home.

As we were driving along, Maddox said in this little, quiet voice "I touched a cookie in a bucket mom." Apparently he had found a cookie somewhere and touched it. Thank goodness he didn't eat it!

I am fighting tears as I write this. There are enough scary things in the world to protect my children from, but now I have to add touching a cookie. What if he would have eaten it? I am trying really hard not to go there, because it doesn't do any good and it didn't happen. Thank you God for that!

It's so hard for me to bring Maddox places, because I am always afraid something like this will happen; he'll find a piece of food somewhere and eat it without me knowing. I am really struggling with this right now. There's no-one to blame or be angry at. It's just the way it is, but I am tired of it some days. I haven't even brought him to a resturant because I am afraid there will be residue of something on his booster and he'll break out. I don't know. I wish he didn't have to go through this, and yet I am glad this is all he has to deal with.