Nerves and Faces

Carly's face broke out into a really weird rash this afternoon, only on the left side of her face, stopping at the midline, and her eye got swollen and weepy, so I called the doctor, and at first he prescribed something and told me to bring her in first thing in the morning. I drove up to CVS to get the prescription he was going to call in. They didn't have anything, so I picked up some Motrin and came back home. In the meantime, while I was at CVS Greg took the kids outside for a walk, and Carly fell asleep sitting on his arm. That is not normal for her, although she did have a short-ish nap today. Just after I got home the doctor called back and said he'd talked to an associate in infectious diseases and he decided he wanted to see her right away. This was at 6pm! Gotta love the small town family doctor! So I ran her up there and (of course) by the time I got there the rash had almost gone away, but he could see where it had been and her eye was still swollen. He wasn't sure what it was/is, but wanted to rule out some things. His best guess is that her fifth cranial nerve got irritated somehow and caused the left side of her face to get red and blotchy. The strangest thing is he showed me in his anatomy book where the cranial nerve runs, and those were the exact spots her face was red. SO WEIRD. She also has a mild ear infection, which he said possibly irritated it, but long story short -- we have no idea. Her face blotched up for about an hour and a half, then went away. My family is always having some kind of skin/face issues it seems.