Some Low Spots

Oh dear. Last Thursday Little One had what I'm afraid might just be the worst day of Her little life so far. As a part of our quest to solve the mystery of the itchy, red, disappearing, reappearing spots which have been regularly popping up (quite literally) for several months now, Little One visited an allergist. Dr. Allergy spent over 3 hours with us on Thursday. Because he is nice and a good Dr, and also because Little One is apparently very interesting with Her magic chameleon-leopard trick.
Sadly, just as She was well into missing not one but two naps, Dr. Allergy apologetically enlisted a minion to perform medieval torture on Her. Otherwise known as a scratch test. Ouch. And Itch. Little One screamed. And She screamed and screamed until the demon GERD of our past heard Her and threw up it's arms and said, "Ok fine allergy test! You win!" And She screamed in a voice which caused me to have to fight very hard all the mommy-instincts written into my DNA in order to not panic and grab Her and run very fast and very far away.
But I resisted, and so I got to the results of this fun experiment. We were told to wait 20 minutes and see if there was any reaction. Here is Little One after about five minutes:

Beyond which no pictures were taken, due to all the screaming and writhing. Here are some fun snippets of Dr. Allergy's reaction to Little One's reaction:

"Do I think it's bad??? Ma'am, look at your daughter's back. Just look at it! And now look over there, at the wall of fame. Yes. Yes I think it's bad".
"I've never seen a reaction like that in a baby. I've never even heard of a reaction like that in a baby".
"Yes, I'm prescribing you an Epi-pen. Actually, I'm prescribing you two."
"I've never had to tell a mother to stop nursing before.....but....."

Yep. Little One appears to be allergic to eggs and milk. So allergic She may even be allergic to my milk. We shall see. For now I am back to being a vegan, and hoping that it will be enough. I'm going to have to admit, I'm pretty bummed about all this news. But I am glad that we jumped through enough hoops to get this information now, before anything like what Dr Allergy thinks might have happened, well, might have happened. As for Little One, She was pretty darn miserable all that day, but She didn't let it steal Her sugar. She still managed a smile on the way out for the nurse that poked Her.

That's my girl. Low spots mean no where to go but up, right?