HIVES!! Really???

I love this picture my daughter took of the "Fish Pond" right here in our town. It also makes me feel peaceful. Well it's been quite a week, the highlight being our youngest daughters graduation from High School. It was such a nice graduation, "koodos" to all who helped pull it off. I'm so glad that I was able to be there not under the influence of chemo/radiation. All the grads looked so good, and all the girls looked amazing in their dresses. The convocation was just the right length and Kevin and I were home before 10:30 p.m., which is when I was tired out.
Got my port-a-cath inserted or "power port" as they called it. Thought they were going to plug my into something electrical. Yes, the flu bug passed, and all went well. Just some local freezing, lots of sterile procedures, (I was buried under drapes), and lots of pressure, tugging, and pulling, but no real pain. By the time the graduation was ready to start I was ready to go, just a little bit tender.
After the grad, Kevin and I came home and watched a movie on Netflix, I fell asleep quite quickly into the movie, and woke up just as it was finishing. This is where it gets exciting, "but what to my wondering eyes should appear?"  HIVES, yes hives, all around my knees and arms. That's actually what woke me up, I was scratching. What now. I was able to go back to sleep and everything appeared to be much better yesterday morning. Then late yesterday afternoon, I could feel my temperature going back up so I quickly drank some really cold water, which strangely seemed to take care of it, but the hives started coming back, and so I went a bought some Benadryl. This morning when I woke up, everything but my face was covered in HIVES. What is going on? Kevin and I have been trying to figure out what I have reacted to, and I haven't been exposed to anything new except the Port-a-cath, and the doctor in emergency this morning was pretty confident that it wasn't that, especially since there is no redness or swelling or hives around the site itself. Some freaky one time exposure to something has set this off. So here I sit at the computer, (no church for me today) looking rather blotchy everywhere. Trying not to get discouraged, and trying to keep my sense of humor. Kevin said this morning, maybe Heavenly Father is letting you feel all the side effects now. Not funny! Anyways I hope this long weekend finds you all well. Enjoy your Monday, I am still planning on going to Waterton, here's hoping.