Pictures From the ER

Here are a few pictures of Ryan's swollen face from the ER visit that Jess blogged about a few weeks back. He looked terrible, but he was breathing fine and he wasn't complaining of pain or anything, so hopefully it looked worse than it was.




They prescribed a steroid for a couple days to reduce the swelling. They told us that it might make him a little hyper. They also told us to keep up with the Benadryl. What they didn't tell us was that the drowsy side effect of the Benadryl would be a nice way to counter-act the hyper side effect of the steroid. He acted normal for a few days, so we stopped the Benadryl and continued with the steroid. Oops. RJ went cuckoo. Not bad cuckoo, funny cuckoo. Bouncing off the walls, unlimited, superhuman energy like nothing I've ever seen before. Usually he gets cranky if he doesn't have a minimum 2 hour nap. Not only did he skip his nap that day, but he was as happy and wild as I've ever seen him straight through until bedtime.

My son has tried to do summersaults before, but never very successfully. At one point in the afternoon we took him outside to let him run around and burn off some of his energy. We were in stitches as we watched RJ perform about 40 running, tumbling summersaults, one right after another. I still don't understand how he did it.