Need to vent about life

I wasn't sure where to post this, in offtopic or in here. I decided here because I'm hoping that after getting it all out there, it'll release some of the stress and I'll actually get motivated to get back to it. I'm sorry if this ends up a bit long, as I expect it too.

First off, I tend to gorge on sweets when stressed. I've tried to hold back as much as possible the last while, but I haven't kept track of my calories either because I didn't want to see it on paper, so to say. Running every day has taken a back seat the last two weeks too. We have a new puppy who tries to bite the ellipticals moving parts every time I try, lol.

Second, this is mostly about my son, who's 2½ years old and the light of my life. Almost exactly a year ago he was in the hospital for the better part of a week. Overnight he developed a rash over his entire body that started blistering. Huge blisters, the size of the palm of his hand, developed all over his hands, feet, and started on his arms. We were told everything those first two days. That he has a disease (whose horrific name I think I've forced myself to forget), basically we were told that his body was rejecting his skin and trying to get it off, life threatening. Then they decided that wasn't it, and it was Kawasaki disease, life threatening, then possibly other cancers, then they thought it was nothing. We were quarantined, the infectious disease specialist was brought in, and finally they decided it was a combination of Mono and an allergic reaction to penicillin. Blood work was done to confirm. Then we were given the run around for 4 weeks about the results. Turns out the hospital screwed up and send for the wrong tests, and used all the blood they had taken, so they had no answers. But by that time the rash was gone, we'd taken him to Disney where he was his perfect, happy, perky self, so we figured that was it.

2½ months ago he started getting fevers, every day. Usually low grade, 99.6 - 100.5. A few times a week he'd be 100.5 - 103. We were worried to say the least, but we didn't rush to the doctor the first month. He'd been prone to ear infections, and he couldn't get any medicine because of the assumed penicillin allergy. But they kept up, so when my daughter went in for her 6 month check-up, we started doing tests. The Dr. figured it was a UTI or kidney infection (he's got some bowel issues too, nothing serious, but the medicine for that makes him more prone to them). We did a urinalysis, figured that would be it, but it came back clean. We figured he was just fighting a bug, and let it go another month.

Still fevers, still every day, we were back to the hospital last night. Another urinalysis, blood-work, and a chest x-ray later, and we're starting to hear those same names again, mainly Kawasaki disease. It'll be a couple of days before we get the blood work results back, and I'm sitting here with him now trying to get another urine sample. At least we're at home though, my husband will take it to the hospital on his way to work.

I feel like I'm spiraling out of control. We're not telling much family. My Aunt is going to surgery next week for possible breast cancer, my grandpa is having some heart problems. Our cousin, only 26, just got some back news about the throat cancer she had at 21, my husband's aunt it waiting on results from a double biopsy, and his grandma was just told that she needs heart surgery.

On top of everything else, my husband suffers from severe depression. He was making great progress until last October when his father committed suicide, since then, not so good.

I can't talk to my friends. I've got a small, good group of them, but my husband works for my best friend's father's company, and he doesn't need questions about everything at work, and none of my friends are good at keeping secrets from the others. I didn't know where else to go. You all have been so supportive with working out, I was hoping you wouldn't mind me getting this out here too.

Hopefully I can get back into a grove, and find a healthier way to deal with all the stress right now