Allergy Re-testing

 It's been a L-O-N-G 10 days of no medicine and pretty much house arrest! With the weather being so ungodly hot and the heat index 100+, we haven't done very much because of Hayley.  It's been kinda nice to have some fun family time inside, we watched lots of movies, cleaned closets, made our school list, read books, and played the Wii! But the day finally came that we had been waiting for: allergy retesting and her lung function test!

Day 2 of no meds!

Hayley is such a tough girl and has been this way ever since she was little. Good thing, because she has been poked, prodded, shot, x-ray, scanned, operated, looked at and tested from the day she was born. We now laugh because she could honestly teach half of the people in the medical field how to do things. She now knows her complete health history from hearing it so much and gets a kick out of answering the questions from the doctors and nurses.

I didn't get any pictures of her doing the lung function test, I was still working on her school forms, but she did so very well on this. Outta the 4 times that she took it, she scored 70% each time. That is better then last time when she averaged a 55%!! We will gladly take this!! We are going to try weaning off Singular after Fall allergy season.

She had not been allergy tested since she was 18 months and they like to redo this every 5 years to update and rework her injections. We have talked lots about what they are going to be doing since she doesn't remember the first time at all--thank God!!!

Hayley after getting all marked up

 I got to have her sit in my lap while they were doing her "pricks" She didn't flinch one. single. time. Brave and strong girl!! She was chatting it up with the nurse and couldn't wait to see her back after she was done. We did a total of 6 rows on her back and the test took 30 minutes--they checked her every 5 minutes.

Allergy wise she is still severely allergic to everything but has made lots of progress from High to Moderate (Thank you, Jesus!)



This was the first picture after 3 minutes of being injected. I was amazed at how much of a difference there was already....last time she was so much worse by this time.  On the bottom right is her "newest" allergy....HORSES. If you only knew the melt down that accompanied this because of her horse.


 

 Next we were on to the foods. She has started to complain of certain foods making her "feel funny" and upsetting her stomach. Since she has a huge reaction to peanuts/tree nuts (Epi-pen) we wanted to check the 10 main foods: milk, soy, eggs, tree nuts, chocolate, wheat, shellfish, egg, fish mix and sesame seed

We knew that she was allergic to tree nuts/peanuts, milk ( more lactose intolerant), and eggs. She ended up with 4 new food allergies: sesame seed, soy, chocolate and wheat. YES we had another melt down because of CHOCOLATE--mainly because of no Oreos or chocolate chip cookies! (she is SO my daughter!!)

It could of been a lot worse and we are so thankful for the progress that has been made. We will take our allergies any day over the medical problems that we could have.  Shots will being in two weeks when her new viles arrive.