One thing after another....

Just as Lucy started sleeping through the night again after getting over her double ear infection and the excitement of visitors at the house, a new problem emerges. And this is right after I develop this scary bump on my neck which requires a CT scan and a visit to the ENT specialist (just ended up being a painfully, swollen lymph node). Two Sundays ago, right before church, Lucy vomits all over Brandon (and his just dry cleaned sweater - grrrr!) and when we check her temperature, she's running a fever. We skip church, call the doctor, are told to monitor and give acetaminophen to control the fever but by the evening, the fever is increasing. Why do these things always happen at night...and on the weekends?

We ended up going to the ER that evening at IMC because the urgent care center that we usually go to was already closed. Poor girl had her temperature taken rectally (but at least it was lower than with the armpit) and ears were checked (no more ear infections at least!) and we were just told to switch off ibuprofen and acetaminophen to control the fever. The fever lasted until yesterday and she slept through the night last night but then she had this crazy rash all over her body. Called the doctor, brought her in, and was told it was probably roseola.

The roseola looked a lot worse than it actually was. But we skipped out on the gym and visiting Emily, baby Olive, and my mom, just in case...

I wish that I took a picture cause it looked terrible. Well, actually, I tried but my camera is so crappy (that my mom finally brought back from Japan - yeah!) or I just don't know how to use it and I couldn't get a high enough resolution picture to even show what it looked like. But here is a picture from on-line:


Scary, huh? Just imagine that all over her abdomen. How come I have never even heard about this or read about it? Supposedly, it is very common but not enough to be mentioned in What to Expect the First Year (or maybe I just fell asleep or haven't got to that part yet...)