Today's Kiddo Update

Thank you to everyone who expressed support for Kiddo, Hubby and I - your response to my post yesterday was absolutely wonderful. I read some of the comments to Kiddo this morning ... now he thinks he's famous. :)

Here's today's update:

Hubby took Kiddo to have all the tape removed. As you may recall, it covered his entire back. The process of getting it off was VERY painful. In some spots the tape took off a few layers of skin. Needless to say, there were lots of tears.

After they left the doctor's office they came to visit me at work. I told Kiddo I wanted to update my blog with more pictures today so this is how he posed for you all. (Just so you know, he is supposed to be the airplane mechanic from Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark - you can see him in this clip at 1:37 in.)

Here are some views of his back. The dark lines are tape residue. The numbers indicate where specific samples were placed. The dark spots you see are food residue from the samples. You may also see red circles - that is where the allergic reactions are starting to occur. Not sure that you want to see a closer view but if you do, just click on the photos and they'll open up larger in a new window.


This last photo is a closer view of the top of Kiddo's back. That red mark is where some of his skin pulled off along with the tape. It looks and feels like severe sunburn.


If the tape removal went well Kiddo was going to go to school this afternoon. After all that pain though, we're not sending him. Instead he's going over to Grandma's house to take a shower (his first since Sunday night) and get the food off his back. He can only rinse, not really wash, since the doctors are seeing him again tomorrow morning to determine the results of the test.

All three of us will be going to the results appointment tomorrow morning (9:30am EST, in case you'd like to pray for us then) but I will certainly update you all as soon as I can get to a computer.