Tuesday Samantha came home from school with a very high (104.3) temperature. There were two little red spots on her cheeks that I just attributed to dryness.
By the next morning she was covered head to toe in a horrific rash that would start as bumps, morph into hives, and then eventually scab over. The rash was everywhere - on her lips even!! Plus she still had her insanely high fever. I was extremely stressed and took her to the Dr.'s office. After more than one doctor, strep cultures and blood work plus waiting forever we still had no answers. The Dr. gave her a prescription for an anti-viral (which I have to admit I'd never heard of) then we just hoped for the best.
She is doing better now. She got a priesthood blessing (the biggest help I think) and the anti-viral was the right call as well. We'll probably never know what exactly she had I'm just glad she's doing better! She missed 4 days of school total. She is thrilled to go back.
These are some pictures-they really don't do it justice though. It was so bad, my one friend said she definitely won the prize for the worse rash she'd ever seen!
5 comments:
It's bad enough when they get sick and are just the most pitiful creatures on earth, but its worse when you don't know why and don't know how to make them better. I'm glad she's on the upside now and I hope it doesn't happen again or to the other kids.
Oh, so sad. I am glad she is doing better!
Oh, poor little thing. She looks miserable. I'm glad she's doing better now.
Poor Samantha! She looks absolutely miserable! This is probably the lab nerd in me, but what did they test for?
Goodness, mine and yours both...and who knows why? Yours almost looks more like chicken pox. Different from Ethan's which were welts. Sheesh what is going on?!
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