We went to Stake Conference last Sunday, March 31st, and Grant started complaining about his feet hurting.
He said they had been hurting since last night.
We thought nothing of it.
Grant started acting up at church and Daddy and I got after him.
At the end of church he still complained about his feet and said he couldn't walk.
Daddy and I assumed Grant was wanting attention.
But after I volunteered to give Grant a piggy back home, Dad put Grant on his shoulders, and we walked home from church, because we didn't bring the car.
When we got home, Grant took off his shoes and socks and this is what we saw.
Red, swollen feet that were hot to the touch.
We immediately gave him IB Profen, had him rest on the couch and then rotated between a cold pack and soaking his feet in hot water.
Nothing seemed to help.
He started getting hives all over.
Some hives appeared on his arm, then his legs, and finally on his cheek.
At about 5pm, we were getting concerned as the redness on his feet were spreading upwards, and he was getting more and more hives.
So, Dad took Grant to the Urgent Care in Idaho Falls.
They stated that Grant needed an IV and they couldn't do it there, so off to the Emergency Room at the Hospital they went.
They had to wait for a whole hour in the waiting room until they could be seen.
The doctor was perplexed by his symptoms.
She brought in 2 other doctors to see.
We mentioned that Grant had been bit by a mouse 10 days before and wondered if he had mouse bite fever.
They didn't think so, and took some blood so they could run some tests.
It took about 2 hours for the test results to come back.
In the meantime, they gave Grant morphine and tylenol for the pain, Rosefin as an antibiotic, Steroids to help with the swelling, and Benedryl for the hives (which seemed to be an allergic reaction of some sort.
Grant started feeling a little better, hence the smiley faces in the pictures.
When the doctor finally came in, his diagnosis was inclusive.
He asked that we stay overnight in the hospital so they could observe Grant and make sure he gets better.
Grant was excited to be in the hospital.
He watched Monsters' Inc. the movie, and then finally went to bed about 2a.m.
We were up at 7 a.m. when the nurses came in.
Grant loved breakfast in bed.
He was thrilled to have juice to drink, play the Wii U, have toys that the nurses brought in.
Being in the hospital, with all these great things, and attention from the nurses was awesome.
The doctor finally came and said that Grant could go home with antibiotics.
He was sad to leave. :(
One of the things they thought Grant might have his post strep infection.
On the way home, we stopped at Broulim's to pick up Grant's prescription.
We bought some lunch while we waited for the prescription to be ready.
There was no where to sit, except at a table with a an older lady.
We asked her if we could sit with her, and she agreed.
She proceeded to tell me that she had just moved to Rigby that day.
We talked about how great Rigby is and what a good place it is to live.
She mentioned how she was also interested in learning about the "Mormons".
I told her how we don't like to be called "Mormons" anymore because we don't follow Mormon, but we follow Jesus Christ, so we are member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
We talked a lot about The Church, and I was able to look up and give her the number to the Bishop in her area and where the church was and the time of church services.
The experience was very special to me to be able to share the gospel, and I'm so grateful the Lord gave me that wonderful opportunity.
