Thanks for stopping by my site and leaving me the link to the paper on IVF and the aspiration of functional cysts. It’s exactly the sort of data I was hoping to find.

The first time she screamed, I assumed she went to sleep while I was walking the dog and I’d just startled her.

The symptoms she initially complained about were her head hurting and being unable to move her legs. I was torn between leaving her in an oh-so sanitary puddle of water, porcelain shards, and peroxide versus moving her and risking possible further damage. I asked her if she’d eaten anything allergic and she said “no”, and the throw-up confirmed as much. Since her known severe allergic reactions to that point were food-based, I wasn’t expecting a non-food reaction. Once I got her moved, she wanted to sleep, but had been awake and talking until that point.

I was contemplating calling 911, but I was leery of them being able to handle her allergy history and unclear about what other steps may make sense here. I figured I’d call my mom the RN first, and if she wasn’t around, then call 911. I was scrambling to find the nearby phone when it rang and it was my serendipitous mom.

As the prospect of allergy slowly emerged from my crashing wife, I still hadn’t discounted the possibility of there being physical injury along with the allergy — the shattered toilet tank was impressive. My specific reluctance to the use of epipen was that she would get all jerky and make whatever closed head or other unseen physical injury worse — tremors and spasms are known side effects. I certainly wasn’t worried about the needle.

There were only two short girls, not four.

Yes, I was quite surprised to be asked by the EMT if she was ok to move, especially after I was describing what happened and questioning whether she was safe to move. Otherwise, I think I was. And, what the ambulance driver asked me what’s the fastest way to get to the hospital, only slightly better than “how do you get to the hospital”.