SED 260 & CDS 275

Hi folks I missed both SED & CDS yesterday due to my daughter being ill. As I had posted earlier in the blog (Kali) has had a fever since Friday. I took her to the Dr. yesterday and she is now on med's and is not allowed to go back to school for a week unless she goes two consecutive days without a fever. Kali has always been a pretty sickly kid, which always causes great concern when she gets a fever- when she was 6 yrs old Kali got sick with a high fever and we (including the Dr.) just assumed that it was viral; she was prescribed an antibiotic and sent home. After 2 more trips to the Dr. and two more antibiotics prescribed in a week- Kali was finally admitted to the hospital. She had huge marble size lesions in her mouth, on her tongue, in her ears, on her eyes, and on her back. The ones on her back were the size of small pancakes that looked like burn blisters. (she still has scars on her back from those). After 11 days in the hospital the Dr. finally found out what was wrong with Kali- she was Diagnosed with Stevens-Johnson Syndrome- which is a rare serious disorder where the skin and mucous membranes react severely to a medication or infection. Basically this disease causes the top layers of skin to die and shed. It was horrific and my daughter was in such pain that even Morphine didn't help. It was by far the worst thing I have ever gone through as a mother.
The doctors finally figured out that the onset of Stevens Johnson Syndrome was by an allergic reaction to antibiotics. She is allergic to Penicillin, Keflex, Duricef, Biaxin, and all sulfur drugs. (Which her original Dr. had failed to document some of the med's he had prescribed her which sent me on a wild goose chase to the pharmacy begging for printouts of all she had taken in the past 6 months so I could take them to the hospital staff) Needless to say he is no longer her physician and her medical chart is now neon green with all kinds of neon stickers on it as a red flag to all the Dr.'s at Madison Pediatrics to know she is high risk. Fortunately, Kali can take Azythromycin but her Dr. is always hesitant about giving her any med's in fear that she will have another reaction. So for all you Mommy's in class - make sure your Dr's document everything in your child's chart- don't do like me and assume they are doing their job.
Kali is now 13 and she has had only 3 other outbreaks of SJS since then and I pray that she never has to deal with it again. For those of you that pray please say a little prayer for Kali that she doesn't get any worse.

ALSO...could someone fill me in on what I missed in class. Thanks. :)