31 August 2013

Strange Bites & Airport EMT

Ooooooh boooooy....

Let me just tell you about today so far....

I woke up bright and early this morning...or I should say I never really fell asleep because I knew I had to be up bright and early ...I got myself ready..blah blah blah.

When I woke Grayson up to get him dressed and ready to go I noticed an unusual bite on his elbow:


I went into slight worry mode... thinking it is just a rather unusually large mosquito bite or possibly a spider bite ..but noooo... not a spider bite..

As we drove to the airport and got to the gate I noticed the sucker had grown and looked even more like a bullseye ...and I immediately went into Mommy Panic Mode...oh yeah... I had tears flowing and everything... my anxiety was through the roof!

One of the agents came to look and drew around the outer perimeter and the time to to see if it would be growing more before time to board...and then the EMTs came...yes...yes they did.

I was worried! Don't judge me.

Grayson is nonverbal..so he obviously cannot tell me if he is feeling dizzy or nauseous and we already know he has an unusually high pain tolerance ...the only thing on my side at this point was that he didn't have a fever and he wasn't throwing up..but he did seem off...so yeah.. I was worried.

Well, the EMTs came, checked him out a little but they really didn't know anything to tell us or what to do and there was also a girl who would be on our flight (later to know sitting right behind me) who happened to be a Doctor...she was an Opthamologist but offered to take a look since she had done some time in Peds.

She thought it was not a spider bite but possibly a skin infection or a big mosquito bite and just said to take him to Urgent Care when we land but that he would be just fine to fly.

By this time I was starting to calm down and be okay and just wanted to get on the plane and get going....


But noooo....

A lovely lovely lady that was the supervisor of the agents of this particular airline was telling us that we may not be able to fly since there is a concern.

Her reason was, "if there is a concern we do not want something happening in the air and then have to make an emergency landing...that would put everyone at risk."

You mean...that would inconvenience everyone...

Now Now, I understand COMPLETELY that having Grayson fly and something happening in the air is not something we would want to happen, but not try to tell me everyone would be at risk for having to stop somewhere before our final landing place....lets just call it what it is and that you would rather us not fly just to be safe than possibly inconvenience everyone.

Anyway, the EMTs and the girl who was a doctor told the lady that everything was fine and gave him the green light to fly but she kept saying, "well thats our call"

She finally decided to tell us that yes, we could fly and then got very rude and told us to hurry up because our plane had been boarding for quite some time....Really?! ....There was NO ONE boarding yet. Every single person who was going to be on our plane was sitting down at the gate and when she started saying that everyone popped up with confusion and she just kept saying that WE were holding everyone up! At this point I started saying lovely things about this oh so lovely lady at a volume level that she may or may not have been able to hear me ;)

As we were going to board the plane, she of course had something to say about our car seat (it has a little attachment with wheels on it so we don't have to take a stroller...it is quite possibly one of the coolest things). We have flown with Grayson....I would say 30+ times since he was born...20 of them being with that cool car seat attachment and every time we fly with this particular airline they ALWAYS give me a hard time about it even though I tell them I fly all the time with it and there is never an issue...but she couldn't leave it at that...she stalked us...yes I am using the work stalk....she stalked us alll the way to the plane and told the flight attendants she wanted to make sure my car seat was okay...really lady? I just wanted to turn around and punch her right in the face!

She finally left us alone...but I mean seriously...give me an effing break...Not today lady... NOT TODAY!

We finally got seated and the lady returned...but not for us...she pulled a girl off the plane because she was wearing too short of a skirt! I have heard of this but I have never actually seen it to know it was true!

Anyway, we finally got up in the air and Grayson did great on the plane (as usual::knock on wood) and we have landed safely in Charleston.

I got him to the Urgent Care and it turns out....it really is just a bad bug bite....

Yes, I am that Mom that makes a fuss about a bug bite...but hey, if you had a kid who couldn't talk, know he has a high pain tolerance and had a "bug bite" that looked that like?!

On a cute note...the EMTs did give Grayson a cute stuffed hurt bear...too bad he doesn't care for stuffed animals :p





Now to enjoy the rest of the evening ...


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