Sorry, I know I haven't updated my blog in over two weeks. Time just gets away from ya sometimes. These past two weeks have been crazy hectic! Nothing much exciting to write home about (no pun intended). My main mission this past week has been keeping the family healthy!
Last weekend, CJ came down with a high fever, good chance it was Hand/Foot/Mouth virus. It's one of those summer viruses that is easy to catch but hard to get rid of. Unfortunately, the week before, one of the children we were having a playdate with started to spike a fever. Of course CJ had taken a sip from his sippy cup before either his mother or I could stop him. Three days later, like clockwork, CJ was spiking a fever too. It lasted 36 hours then he got a terrible fever blister at the back of his throat. I took him to the doctor and she said to be on the lookout for sores in mouth/hands/feet aka Hand/Foot/Mouth virus or for a rash on his torso aka Roseola. Great! I called my friend to see how her kids were doing... two of them had sores on their feet. She felt terrible but there was really no way we could've known about it at the time of the playdate. According to our doctor, it's everywhere this time of year.
Anyway, once we knew what we were dealing with, Emelie and I went into overdrive to try to arrest it and keep the family healthy. Too much going on between vacation coming up and the 4th of July etc... I cancelled all playdates.. no more trips to the pool.. we practically disinfected the whole house and all of the kids' toys.. everybody is washing their hands even more than usual... and we've kept Bria and CJ seperated as much as possible most of the week. Ugh! It has been a lot of hard work and we're exhausted! However, so far so good. CJ has been fine for the past 4 days and he never did get sores on his hands or feet. Bria ran a lowgrade fever on Thursday but has been fine ever since. Me, Chris, and Emelie have been fine thus far too plus it is rare for adults to get sick from this virus. Given a 3-7 day incubation period, I figure by Wednesday we'll be in the clear!! Only 3 days to go.... The last thing we need is to have anybody sick w/sores on their hands and feet at beach time!! *sigh*
I still have a few pics to share however. If you enlarge them, you can see better:
3 comments:
Oh no! Hopefully they'll be fine for the beach. One of Lu's daycare buddies has been sick for the past four days with a high fever and they're thinking it's hand foot and mouth disease. I'm keeping my fingers crossed for Lu too. A few weeks ago he had that weird fever virus -- between 102 and 104 for four days and then it just disappeared. We never found out what it was.
Hmmm.. it could've been anything. I kinda hope for Lu's sake that it was the hand/foot/mouth virus and he simply didn't develop the sores. That way, he'll be immune to the strain that could still be circulating at daycare. As with most viruses, it takes about 10 days to run its course.. longer for some cases... but it is most contagious right before the fever hits. The nastiest part is that this virus can live on surfaces for weeks! Fun stuff huh? I think we alone caused stock in Chorox to go up last week!! hehe
JoAnn
Poor CJ, I'm happy he's better! Bria and the beetle.. VERY CUTE!
Auntie Cindy
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