Another trip to Minot!

Well Alicia's vacation is over. I drove her back today. We went to see the allergy specialist.
They were going to do a patch test. He brought the test kit in and showed it to us. It was only a small package about 3 x 6 inches. But it had small patches to test for at least 12 or more
different types of allergens. Then he proceeded to tell her that all the patches that have something that she has an allergy to will get bright red and be extremely itchy and it will stay that way for several months and later turn brown and yeah it sounded like he was trying to talk her out of doing it, and guess what it worked! He also said that instead of that we could eliminate the allergen that we are sure of and that is medal. He explained that we should take all of her jeans and any other pants that have metal buttons or snaps or any thing metal and take them to some one that will change the metal to plastic! I didn't even know that that could be done. So tomorrow I'm going to be on the phone trying to find some one that can do that. I talked to some sales people at a fabric store and they suggested we try dry cleaners that do alterations. Well I did a yellow page search and found two that are within walking distance from JC and I'm hoping one of them will do it. They are both only .8 miles away and would only take 2 minutes to drive there. He put her on a strong antibiotic again and one ointment and one moisturizer. With other instructions to the types of laundry soap if possible two rinse cycles and absolutely no drier sheets after the appointment she went down to the lab for blood work and UA. We headed back to JC after looking for some place (with out success) to fix her pants. Well she was just getting done putting away her stuff and she got a call. It was the Drs. Office Some of the lab work was finished and guess what.... No really you will never guess! It turns out that she has Mono!! What??? No way she said she doesn't even feel tired. Well I don't know if they can tell if she has had it for awhile or if she is just getting over it? But she insisted that she stay at JC, but we are not sure what will happen if the nurses find out. I thought that she seemed a little tired when she first got home but by the end of her vacation today she seemed fine. So maybe she is on the mend. They also want her to go back tomorrow to take an X-ray of her sinuses. So I will be also trying to get that set up tomorrow. The 400 mile drive really wore me out so enough for now. Good night