House of needies...

So, in my last post I neglected to mention that Kaden hurt his arm the same day I was at the ER for my hives. My first thought as he was screaming that he hurt himself falling off the couch was "if we have to make another trip to the ER I'm going to just die." We did not take him to the ER because after further inspection of his arm and asking him some questions we quickly came to the conclusion that he had over extended it. Nothing broken, nothing too terrrible. It was also right at bedtime, so we didn't know how much of the meltdown was truly his arm, and how much was just he needed some sleep. Although, he cried enough that we did know it wasn't totally just from being tired. Now that it's been a few days we are realizing that in the process of falling off the couch and over-extending his elbow, he also messed up his shoulder. It took us this long to figure that out mostly because he IS milking his "broken arm" (as he calls it) to the point of ridiculous. He wouldn't even open the door the other day til we MADE him. As if his right arm isn't perfectly fine...he would be perfectly happy to whine about everything and make us do everything for him. He cries when we even lift him under his armpits. And today I asked him to raise his arm above his head. He refused to even try it alone, so he used his good hand to lift it (ever so slowly) above his head. Then i told him to hold it there and let go. He tried and I could see in him that he wasn't faking as it shook and felt to his side. I could tell he had tried, and he was in tears at the end. I guess we'll head to the dr soon. The problem is, I don't trust myself under the influence of benedryl for the first 2ish hours... which leaves about a 1 hour window where I don't have the hives making me crazy or the benedryl making me sleep. How do you schedule an appt in that time frame??? bad timing, Kaden...bad bad timing! Poor Luke has gotten the brunt of taking care of this sad household full of needy people. He's done such a good job, but I can see it taking a toll on him too. We have date night tomorrow... I'm not sure we'll actually go on a date, but it'll be a good time to not have kids and just BE. And maybe my hives will be gone by then?