Hi all- I wanted to try and keep this updated. Here are a few pictures from a play date with Johnny on Superbowl weekend, a visit from Grammie and Papa and yes, a round of scarlet fever....sigh.....
Flying high with Mike, John, Johnny and Nate... I wonder what this would feel like?
Notice the superbowl on in the back ground....heh
Johnny is a precarious position....
Flying again..... (Nate is the one with dark top, lighter jeans, Johnny is light top, dark pants...)
Here's Nate doing a craft that Grammier brought with her... he loved glueing on the pieces and coloring it! (Its a frog btw)
Nate went home from school sick on Thursday, but we thought it was just the 24 hour bug that has been going around... well, though that part only lasted briefly, he kept spiking fevers and then wouldn't eat and stopped drinking.... he also developed a rash on his torso and face...you can see a bit of it here where he's sitting with Papa...
You can also see how red his tongue was as well- its what they call "strawberry tongue". By Sunday, his fever and everything was controlled by Motrin, but he kept spiking a fever, and drinking even less.....so we took him to the ER (the only place to be seen by a doc in SC on the weekend) to have a strep test done... and sure enough, his throat swab came back positive for Strep- scarlatina (Scarlet Fever)- So that was our fun for the past several days. Its easily treatable with antibiotics, so he's back to himself...except that himself means a VERY defiant boy...I can barely get him to take his medicine... we'll see if he actually starts eating well, or will hold out for the ice cream he got when he wasn't eating anything else...
You can't see the rash here very well, but it would come and go....
Scarlet fever, or cabin fever? You would have only known he was sick because he wouldn't eat or drink much and the fact that he was REALLY touchy....When I think scarlet fever, I think REALLY sick....but he just didn't act it all the time... he's a trooper... It really just took us by surprise, we have no idea where he picked it up from. No one at daycare had reported having strep....but then again, perhaps some parents don't report that stuff.... anyway, hopefully no one else catches it!
