January was a rough month for sickness in our house. One week he was sent home with a fever from school, and no other symptoms. I thought it was just from teething and even had him checked out at the doctor’s office. After going back two days later, he broke out into a rash. Come to find out he got ‘hand-foot-mouth disease’. I had no idea what this was and relied on my good friend Google to help me out. So back to school on Monday we go. He started running a low-grade fever mid-week, but I sent him anyways (Bad Mommy!). Well, the daycare called. With 102 degree fever, coughing, terrible runny nose, and goop coming out of his eyes,
they wanted that kid out of there, in a nice way of course. Jordan ran him to the doctor, and he was diagnosed with RSV. YIKES!! Okay, this is serious; I’ve heard it can develop into pneumonia if not treated promptly. So, now we get to do breathing treatments every 4 hours. No fun at all! Poor little guy, just didn’t want to sit still for 10 minutes with that stupid thing. Eventually we found a method that works, which included lots of Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, a cell phone, and Mom & Dad taking some hits off of the breathing treatment as well. After alternating days to stay home with him, we were finally given the thumbs up to go back to school. And he’s been well ever since, knock on wood. I’m a little late on getting him to his 15-month checkup, but I’m taking him next week.
January was a rough month for sickness in our house. One week he was sent home with a fever from school, and no other symptoms. I thought it was just from teething and even had him checked out at the doctor’s office. After going back two days later, he broke out into a rash. Come to find out he got ‘hand-foot-mouth disease’. I had no idea what this was and relied on my good friend Google to help me out. So back to school on Monday we go. He started running a low-grade fever mid-week, but I sent him anyways (Bad Mommy!). Well, the daycare called. With 102 degree fever, coughing, terrible runny nose, and goop coming out of his eyes, 
they wanted that kid out of there, in a nice way of course. Jordan ran him to the doctor, and he was diagnosed with RSV. YIKES!! Okay, this is serious; I’ve heard it can develop into pneumonia if not treated promptly. So, now we get to do breathing treatments every 4 hours. No fun at all! Poor little guy, just didn’t want to sit still for 10 minutes with that stupid thing. Eventually we found a method that works, which included lots of Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, a cell phone, and Mom & Dad taking some hits off of the breathing treatment as well. After alternating days to stay home with him, we were finally given the thumbs up to go back to school. And he’s been well ever since, knock on wood. I’m a little late on getting him to his 15-month checkup, but I’m taking him next week.
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