Riley and Avery

We are on our way to take Riley to the doctor's office today. I noticed last night that she has some seriously swollen lymph nodes in her neck and she's getting drasticlly worse. Troble breathing and so forth, nasty cough. She actually asked to go to the doctor's office, so you know the little munchkin is not feeling well at all. They had a flier up at her school that a child had been diagnosed with strep throat, although the child hadn't been in school for several days, they still notified us. Riley hasn't complained of a sore throat, but she is requesting food and then refusing to eat it. We'll look like a bunch of vagabonds at the doctor's office, since Avery's rash from the peanut and a half that I ate hit a new high last night. Her face and chest are breaking out and her eyes are bloodshot. I know now that her nasty rash when she was a newborn that oozed and bled must have been from peanuts. I used to eat at least one and usually two PB&J sandwiches a day back then. Hopefully she'll outgrow it. Some preschools have started not accepting children that have allergies because they don't want the responsibility. Riley's school banned peanuts instead and they are not allowed in the school. Anyway, I'd better take a shower so that not all of us look like transients at the doctor's office...