Sick Days

 As mentioned in the previous post, I discovered that Dylan was running a fever when we returned from a trip to Maryland for his cousins' birthday party last Sunday.  He did not sleep very well on Sunday night and on Monday morning, he cried "Mouth! Mouth!" soon after he woke up. I took him to the doctor that morning and his pediatrician diagnosed him with the Hand, Foot and Mouth virus. I couldn't see any tell-tale signs but the doc said that he had blisters all over the back of his throat, on his tongue and on the sides of his mouth. He had a pretty good day on Monday but woke me up at 2 that night and didn't go back to sleep until around 3:30. On Tuesday morning, he was extremely irritable and cried repeatedly over every little thing. I gave him some Children's Advil and he promptly gagged and threw his breakfast up all over himself.  On Wednesday, he was in better spirits but was covered all over with a red spotty rash and had several blisters on  his face, hands and feet. On Thursday, the rash and blisters all started to fade and he was FINALLY able to go back to daycare on Friday. It was a long week but thankfully,  I was able to work from home. Dylan was really good to play independently nearby for big chunks of time but he'd often come up to me and give a spontaneous hug or kiss or just smile and say "Hey Mama!" :)