Sick, yet again

I really think Noah has been sick more in the last two months than he has his entire little life!! Hence my pathetic blogging!

So Monday I took Noah to school (Praise the LORD summer school started). I noticed a few bumps on his legs, but as always assumed it was eczema. We went to an outside birthday party Saturday so it didn’t seem out of the ordinary for him to be broken out. His school called me that afternoon to tell me that it looked like the bumps were spreading into more of a rash. I went and picked him up and decided to call the doctor to see if they wanted to see him. THEN I remembered that I gave Noah some Pediasure on Sunday morning and he broke out the last time I gave him Pediasure (but we thought that was from his penicillin allergy). I mentioned that I thought Noah was having an allergic reaction to the Pediasure and they assured me that as long as he wasn’t having breathing problems, that I could give him Benadryl and he should be fine.

So Tuesday I took Noah to school. At 9am his school called and said the rash seemed to be spreading again. I picked him up and decided to just take him to the doctor so that they could lay eyes on him and we could get a better diagnosis.

We didn’t get to see Noah’s regular doctor, so we saw another doctor in the practice (that I’m not all that fond of). First, he told us that it looked like Noah had been bitten by fleas. Seriously?!? I had to hold myself back from slapping the man. Noah had some spots in his mouth, too. I guess all of our fleas just crawled into Noah’s mouth and bit his tongue, too. Idiot.

We left the doctor’s office still thinking he was allergic to Pediasure. I decided that since the spots look a little funky, I would take off work Wednesday and stay home with Noah. Then I noticed a blister-looking spot on one of Noah’s fingers. Then I started worrying about hand-foot-mouth disease. I religiously started checking his feet to make sure he didn’t have any blisters. I checked at 4:00pm…nothing. I checked again at 4:45pm…THREE blisters on the bottom of one foot!! FREAKIN HAND FOOT MOUTH!!!!!! I did a little facebook research and realized that a little boy in Noah’s church nursery class had it too. Bingo.

SOOOOOOOO that’s been our week. Luckily my FABULOUS friend has been watching Noah for me so I can actually get a little bit of work done. He is slowly starting to look better, thank the Lord.

(That picture was really from last Sunday, but he just looked so cute!) I reallllllllllllly hope his spots are all gone by Sunday so that we can all go to church together for Father’s Day!