**Sigh**

We've had a tough week.

That's quite an understatement, actually. This has been the week from HELL. Sam's tongue has created quite a frenzy in our household...the only reason that I can blog right now is because he's still asleep due to the fact that he fell asleep at 1 am. Otherwise, I would be holding him as he shakes and screams and cries because of the pain. So here's how it's all gone down-

Friday- "My tongue hurts" several times during the day. His tongue is red and looks strawberry-ish. He was up several times during the night crying from the pain. Saturday-sores came out and looked like ulcers, not cankers or pustules, on the tip of his tongue. Regular doses of Advil and diversion seemed to keep him happy. Sunday- he seemed pretty good on Sunday....we went skating and he loved it, he ate some lunch, played some video games. But on Sunday evening the shit went down. At about 8:30pm, Eric and I were heading out for adult skating when we could hear whimpering from Sam's room...by the time we got upstairs it was apparent that we were heading to the hospital instead. Sam was shaking, feverish, overcome with pain...the ulcers had drained and what was left was a pretty large (maybe, an inch and a half?) ridge of open skin along the tip of his tongue. It wasn't just "open"; it looked like layers of the tongue had been scraped away to expose a hole. Anyhow, we took him to Emerg. at Southlake and had a VERY bad experience with a doctor (I'll blog about that at a later date!) who prescribed nothing and said that it's just "viral". Monday- after a very bad night, Eric stayed home with Sam and I went to school. I was sick as a dog! Anyhow, Sam seemed to be on the mend- ate, hung out with Eric and didn't require anything for pain. But that night he was up for 3 hrs! Tuesday- Sam went to school but I got a phonecall to pick him up by noon because he was crying in pain. I took him to a pediatrician and he admitted that he has never seen anything like this. He said it didn't look viral, it didn't closely resemble an allergic reaction, so he took a couple of swabs and put him on antibiotics. The pain was so bad while we were there that he also put him on codeine....the poor little guy was beside himself from having it poked at so much. The doctor told me to take him to Sick Kids if he got worse before our follow-up appointment on Friday. So we went home and for about 20 minutes (after the first dose of codeine) he was ok. But then the shitstorm began- screaming, crying, writhing, shaking....it was awful! After 3 hrs of this, we packed him up and took him down to Sick Kids. The doctor there looked at it, told us what it was called (something like- dlfkdjfldjfaldkfjdieuroeaiud) and said that there are a number of reasons this can happen. It could be something simple, but it could also be a symptom of something more serious. So he took bloodwork. And now we're home and waiting to hear something.

Sam just woke up and he's shaking but not crying. I guess that's a good sign......his tongue has a white coat where the ulcers where now, and I'm thinking that's a positive. At least it's not a wide-open, gaping sore anymore. Gotta go be with my boy!