"Let me explain. No, there is too much. Let me sum up."

Summing up events since the last post:

• Ayden's rash was checked out at the pediatrician's office.  The tentative diagnosis was erythema multiforme.
• A visit to the allergist was scheduled for Monday (today).
• Erythema multiforme is typically caused by a drug reaction.  The allergist (over the phone) thought the two most likely culprits were aspirin and enalapril (two of the three drugs Dr. K wants him on long term).
• The rash started to go away Friday afternoon.  By bedtime, it was basically gone.
• Ayden started getting upset overnight Friday.
• We checked his oxygen level while he was asleep at 6am Saturday morning.  He was in the 60s.  Not good.
• We woke him up and he was in the high 70s.
• Over the course of the morning, the awake sats slowly dropped.  By early afternoon, they were in the 60s.
• By early afternoon, Ayden was on his way to the ED.  He was given oxygen.  A chest x-ray was taken.  It showed pleural effusion on that right side.  Again.
• I sat with him all afternoon in the ED until someone was available to put a chest tube in.  That was completed at around 8pm.
• He came off oxygen yesterday and has stayed off it.
• We have no explanation for the rash. Or for the effusion.