Sick Baby Boy

Okay well I have made references to Bryce being sick in several of my previous posts, so here is the story. Wednesday, the day before Halloween Bryce broke out in this rash...it was all over his knees, hands, feet, and diaper area. I thought it was weird but he had a doctor appointment the next day anyways so I didn't worry to much about it. At that time he started to being really fussy and continued to be for about the next week. The next day at his appointment the doctor checked him over, and thought everything was good, he assumed the rash was just some sort of viral thing that should clear up so he wasn't real concerned cause he didn't have anything else going on with it. Well a few days later the rash started to heal, although it kind of went all scabby. Then he developed a fever and was super fussy. We thought okay he is teething. He fought his fever for three days and was just miserable- finally it broke. The day after it broke he was still being super fussy, and then he broke out in another rash all over his back. I was like okay that's it and I took him into the instacare since it was late at night. Well the doctor on call there took one look at him and said there is your problem he has had Hand Foot and Mouth Disease. He said that there were sores in his mouth that were starting to clear up and probably had developed just after the doctor saw him the week before, he could also tell from the scabs from the old rash, and he said the new rash was just an extension of it. WOW!!! Poor Baby. To bad we went a whole week without really knowing what was going on. A few facts about Hand Foot and Mouth Disease that the Doctor shared with me. Most children gets it sometime between the ages of 1-5. Adults can get it as well but it is usually less severe. Children's symptoms manifest in different ways and some cases are more severe-in Bryce's case his rash was pretty bad, in many cases the parents might not even realize they have it. It is kind of like the chicken pox and you usually don't ever get it again once you have gotten it. Lately there has been an epidemic of it. Well that's the story and luckily our little guy is feeling a lot better now :)