I never said I was a doctor

To know me well is to know that I typically only bring my kids into the doctor’s office if they are REALLY sick. I’m not one to bring them in for a cold or a cough or a low grade fever. In fact, unless they are truly miserable, I just kind of ignore it and hope it will clear itself up.

For the past four days CT’s cheeks have been really red. I, of course, assumed that he just had chapped cheeks from the sub zero temperatures and have been coating them with Aquaphor. Not once thinking there could be anything else wrong.

Tuesday, mid-morning, I got a call from the school. The school nurse starts telling me that CT has a lacy like rash all over his face and infact ALL OVER HIS BODY. She went on to say that she thinks he has Fifths Disease and that I need to come get him immediately and bring him to the doctor to have it confirmed or denied. And in parting, she was wondering if I had noticed it at all before he stepped foot out the door that morning.

So, I bring all of them into the doctor’s office, where they are sure to catch something else, and sure enough he had it and quit a good case of it. The good news is that he is no longer contagious now that he is sporting this amazing body rash that can last up to four weeks and works its way down the extremities.

Honestly, I was just pleased that I was trying to do my part and take care of his chapped cheeks.

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