WTH

So as Sunday night ended Piper was breaking out in a rash and just not herself. My mom had asked for this week off since we had family in town, totally understandable! Piper was up most of Sunday night. So Monday I stayed home in the morning and we took Piper to the walk-in clinic. We thought maybe it was a reaction to the amoxicillin (from her ear infection the week before!), the doctor there took a strep and mono test....at this point I knew he was grasping for anything to explain her terrible rash.
She switched her off the amoxicillin and said we could give her Benedryl to help. We did. Monday night the same thing, not happy, wouldn't eat, rash was terrible and wouldn't sleep. We were all exhausted. My mom (my superhero!) said she could watch Piper if needed. So Tuesday morning Steve took her over there about 10 and I picked her up about 4. No changes.
Tuesday night, we had a little better sleep...as she was only up for less than 2 hours (still sleeping in our bed, with one of us sleeping on the couch). You could tell her legs were just itching the hell out of her. Wednesday, Steve took her to mom's about 7:45, still no change. The rash was gone from her face and had decreased in her arms but her legs were still terrible.
We had kindergarten round-up in the afternoon so we both had 1/2 days for this. P was SO excited! To the point that she couldn't contain herself, non-stop talking, could hardly write her name b/c she was so pumped up. She is excited for kindergarten but I'm not sure she knows exactly what she is getting into! HA!
I made a dr's appt for Piper that afternoon with her normal doctor, she basically said it was a reaction, turned into eczema. The Benedryl itching gel we were putting on it, was probably making it worse (which we didn't know) but she gave her a steroid of Prednisolone, which after learning about the side effects, we weren't that keen on giving her. So Wednesday night we did our normal Benedryl oral medication and she slept ALL night! OMG! This is totally what we needed! So Thursday we didn't give her anything and it seems to slowly be going away and now we have had two good nights of sleep!

You can tell she is just feeling better now. She is back to her orny self now, getting into everything, making a mess, climbing on any table she can find...now lets just hope the rash continues to slowly go away!