So last night when we were getting ready for bath time, we noticed this really bad "rash" on Blake's torso- front and back. S said "oh, last week there were a few kids in the peds clinic with chicken pox." Well, it turns out that Blake and I were there visiting on the peds clinic day last week and one of the other residents that was seeing all the chicken pox kids was holding Blake after clinic. So of course now I'm paranoid that it's chicken pox and I have been worried all day and checking Blake all day to see if the rash is changing/spreading.
I told my mom all this and she went to lunch with her friend and told her all this and the friend said "oh, my kids used to get roseola. It sounds like that is what he has." So I looked it up on the web and it seems like that is what he has. High fever, tired, no appetite and bumps all over. It basically seems like a mild version of something like chicken pox- they come from the same type of virus. And it also seems like once they get it, they won't get it again.
Not that it makes today any easier.
He has been sleeping alot though. And when he is awake, he is very cuddly (which definitely indicates he doesn't feel well), and wants to be held ALLLLL day. It's nice to hold him though because he's not his usual squirmmy self.
Hopefully in a few days all will be back to normal. Except I called the babysitter to cancel this morning and told her about it and we don't want the other kids to get sick, etc, but it turns out that now that it is in the rash stage, it's not contagious anymore. Oh well. I'm sure he caught it from someone else when they didn't know they had it either.
good times
