I have to say this last week has been not only long but sleep deprived and emotionally draining. Kylee's ears had finally healed and we were excited at having a healthy happy baby until Tuesday morning when she woke up at 5 am with a fever. Which meant no school for her and no work for one of us. Lucky for me Patrick was able to stay home with her cause I had a meeting on tuesday. At this point we just assumed she was teething. Nothing else seemed to be wrong except the fever. Her fever remained throughout the day. So tuesday night she would not go to sleep until like 11 pm. Then she woke up at like 12 ish and we brought her in with us hoping she would go back to sleep. No fever at this point. She did fall asleep only to wake up at 2 am with a 102 fever. When taking off her jammies to take her temp we noticed this rash covering her arms and legs. So at this point off to the Children's Hospital. After arriving we were taken into a room with only a short wait. Then doctor was in immediately and noticed her throat was very red. He did a throat culture for strep. Most children under 2 DO NOT get strep.. However she is my child so of course the strep culture came back positive.. At this point he diagnosed the rash as a virus, but said to get it checked by her doc. We get home around 5 am and finally get about 2 hours sleep before I have to get up for work and meetings all day! Again Patrick had to stay home with Kylee. Her fever broke at some point on wednesday however she still had this horrible rash that just seemed to be getting worse. Blisters where starting to form in the middle of the spots. Now, I am starting to get really worried that she might have chicken pox or something like that. So i get on the internet and sure enough it looks just like the picture of chicken pox and the symptoms seem to be the same. It recommended that you circle a couple and keep an eye on them prior to seeing your doc. So I did. Wednesday night she slept better but still woke up a couple times in the middle of the night. Up for good at 430 am. Thursday I was able to stay home to take her to the doc and patrick got a break and went to work. I called the doc prior to going to let them know I thought she had chicken pox, so when we got there they kept us quarentined for about 30 min before bringing us into an exam room. The doc came in and examed kylee and was struggling with what the rash was. She was leaning toward chicken pox as serveral of them had blisters, but wasn't sure cause it wasn't all over her body as chicken pox tend to be. Since it was just on her arms, legs and a couple on her face she was hesitant. She did however say since Kylee had been vaccinated for chicken pox it can tend to look different than normal. The doc brought in another doc for a second opinion, and he too said it didn't look like typical chicken pox but wasn't sure what it was. So at this point since neither could give a definative answer to what it was they said VIRUS..I left there thinking what a bunch of quacks! I couldn't believe they couldn't tell one way or another for sure Yes it is or No it isn't. So they said to just watch it and see if they scab over or more blisters appear. So now that it has been a couple days they have been decreasing in amount and redness, a couple have scabbed but for the most part they are going away.. Which we are very happy about. Hopefully this means she can go back to school on Monday and both Patrick and I can return to work.. I am glad this week is over and I am happy to report Kylee slept until 6:15 ish this morning. Only woke up once at 12 looking for her binki.. Hopefully tomorrow she won't wake up at all in the middle of the night and sleep til 7.. I ready to be back on our normal routine! We could sure use the sleep..
