Never a dull moment

Well in the military it is a well known fact among military wives that when your husband is away on a deployment or TDY everything will go wrong...the car will break down, the washing machine will break, kids get sick, okay so you get the picture.

Ian left for 5 days to go to Colorado Springs last week with the Air Force and while he was gone we had a cookout with our sweet friends Becky and Mark Jennings and their 4 boys from Wales. Well while we were sitting out on the patio and eating this incredibly sweet watermelon, Ella Rose got stung by a yellow jacket. Her hand started swelling right away, turning red and looking pretty bad until the swelling went all the way up to her little elbow. I went in and called the emergency line (on base) and they told me they would send someone to check it out. I kept telling them now I didn't want to be an overreactive Mama but I knew Ian was really allergic to bees so I was concerned since my 17 month old had not been stung yet. "Oh no" the fella on the other end of the line said, "For a 17 month old it is better that we come out and check her out...better to be safe than sorry because if she were to have trouble breathing, that could be dangerous." So within 2 minutes we hear a siren and 2 military police are out on our patio, within another 4 minutes, the firetruck comes up the road flashing their red lights and siren blaring only for 4 fireman to show up on our patio, then we hear another siren and now the Germans have come and then before it was over, we heard one more siren. Oh my word, I'm looking at all the people out on our patio and we have 2 Military police, 4 Military fireman, 4 German paramedics, and then 3 more German folks from the German hospital (including a Doctor) who are out on our patio checking out Ella Rose. After the Dr. checked her out (Ella Rose was still interested in eating her watermelon can you believe while they were checking her out) and the fireman checked out her oxygen level, they said she was fine.

Becky being the all wise and all knowing Mama of 4 boys had been down this road before so she submerged Ella Rose's hand in ice cold water with some of her floating toys from the bathtub in the water when I was making the phone calls so that helped the swelling go down. I was quite embarrassed by the whole ordeal looking around at all these folks and told them I thought only a couple of fireman were going to show up and that would be it. "Oh no, this is protocol, M'aam," one of the fireman told me, "just in case she needed transporting to the hospital, that's why the Germans showed up too." So now this Mama has gone through a bee sting and we now know Ella Rose is NOT allergic to bee stings like her Daddy...yea!

So at the very end of the whole ordeal I look at Becky and said wow we should have gotten pics of all of that and since Becky and I have been friends since we were 5 years old, she gleefully smiled and said, "oh I got a pix...I knew you would want one." And a big blessing through the whole thing was Carolina Grace slept through the whole ordeal. Boy look at all Ian misses out on when he's not with his girls. :)