Good Egg, Bad Egg

A few days ago, Dr. Allergy called and said that Little One's IGE levels had fallen low enough that She was, as we had hoped, a candidate for another food challenge! We were so excited that he even sweet-talked the staff into squeezing us in the very next morning!
We were there, early and chipper and with J's mom along to entertain us, and we made it through the first two "doses" with no problems!
Then came the hives.
I and blamed them on the toy she had picked up in the waiting area.
So we waited awhile and repeated the same dose once more (about the size of half a pea). I kept Her in my lap, touching nothing.
And then came the hives.
There was a consult. There was the consideration of rare, one in a million chances that the test could have been thrown off by one thing or another. All discounted.
Fail.
Dr. Allergy says he almost never sees a reaction during a food challenge. But Little One is special, as we know.
So eggs remain off the list for at least a year, and everything else is too high to even think about until then. But, honestly, if I had to have picked one for Her to ditch, it would be the soy, and so I think we lucked out.
Thankfully, there was grandma. Whew! And a LOT of stickers. And nothing worse than hives. And despite being awakened early, forced to sit still for hours, getting itchy, and being compensated by two shots in the leg and then getting kept out and about all afternoon without a nap (so that J could go home and sleep, having just returned from working like mad in the ICU for 30 hours straight), despite all that She was full of sweetness. She hung in there like a champ.
What can I say? She's a good egg.
As for the rest of them- I say eggs are over-rated anyways! Forget you eggs! We'll see you suckers in a year and see how tough you feel then! Ha!