So I had been meaning to get back here but following BD2's birth almost 2 weeks ago has been a rollercoaster of medical insanity.

I had a scheduled c-section (my OBGYN group really wanted me to try a VBAC but I wanted my tubes tied as well--I'm done. Caput. No more newborns for me, thanks. If I really, really want another one, I'll do IVF since in the words of my OB, "The IVF people don't want your tubes." DH and I have also been talking about possibly becoming foster parents in the future when the DDs are older.)

Everything went super well as far as the C-section went--my OB should be a plastic surgeon, he cut away the old scar tissue and redid it (I had an emergency C-section with BD1 and he was not the surgeon) so well that a nurse who came to check on the incision couldn't even find it. I'd be flashing it to everyone if I wouldn't be arrested for public indecency.

Then it all went to shit after I went home.

I was feeling really good, mostly pain free by the second day home and took myself off the Tylenol and the Motrin and turns out they were masking a fever. The next day I developed a severe pain in my right lower abdomen. Called my OB middle of the night, he told me to take a Tylenol, if the fever was still there in the morning to come in. He sees me and sends me to the ER five minutes later.

I get admitted because the CAT scan picks up a borderline appendicitis sized appendix, a blood clot in my left gonadal vein (whatever that is), and a large pocket of fluid in my abdomen.

They decide to hit me with a penicillin based antibiotic. I had taken penicillin multiple times in my life, once a month ago when I thought I was going into labor and they gave it to me because I am group B strep positive.

Anaphylactic shock. I have never taken allergies lightly and after this ordeal I will be even more vigilant. Two seconds after it hit the IV, throat closed up, couldn't breathe, turning blue. My poor mother looks like she's going to have a heart attack.

The nurse who administered it thought was sort of an airhead--when the doctor asked what happened, she was like "I'm not sure!"

I grabbed the doctor and pointed to the antibiotic which was STILL DRIPPING INTO THE IV (if somebody didn't do something with it I was going to rip it out of my arm) and the nurse is saying, "But I only put it in ten seconds ago!"

Anyway, by this time an entire team has bum rushed me, the doctor had disconnected the antibiotic, they push an epi, Benydryl, steroids into the IV, puts a nebulizer on me, and it takes about 15 minutes for me to breathe somewhat normally.

Surprisingly, after that, the fever and the pain disappeared--like just straight up vanished without any medication. No one has any explanation for that. From excruciating pain that I couldn't even walk through to nothing.

I've been stuck in the hospital for about 4 days, went through a battery of tests. On blood thinners now for the clot. My appendix seems fine.

And I apparently suddenly developed a penicillin allergy. Is that even possible?

Edited To Add: Also, shout out to DH for taking care of a newborn and a 3 year old for four days completely on his own (he was able to take off work for those days). The house may look like Armageddon but the kids were clean, fed, and happy. That's really all I could ask for.