EpiPEN oh my!!

We took the little V to an immunologist/allergist yesterday to figure out some of his allergy issues....he was so brave....the nurse Rebecca poked his back over 30 times with little plastic things that had stuff he could possibly be allergic to. Oh MY Word! 30 TIMES! Then, we had to wait about 15 minutes for the allergy things to do their business....and can I tell ya - it was a LONG 15 minutes. We had thumb wars, played hand games, blew cool air on his ITCHY back while we waited....and waited....and waited!

so this first picture is about 30 seconds into it.

And this moment was about 7 minutes later. Big V and Little V were playing rock paper scissors.

And this is just before she wiped all the stuff off! He's allergic to dust mites, cats, dogs, 3 kinds of grass, ragweed, pigweed, plantain, cottonwood trees, walnut-oak-elm-elder-birch-maple-beech and willow trees......and he's not allergic to milk or mold.

THEN she had to put all kindsa stuff with a needle UNDER his skin because they wanted to get a more definitive answer on some of his allergies. So she came back after 10 minutes, looked at me and said - do you carry an epipen around with you? {insert TOTAL freak out inside my head} WHAT? huh? WHY?? No. WHY? Because he's SO allergic to SOY that you should think about that.

What. Then we got lessons on using an EpiPen. then I totally freaked out. again. and again. and again.