Teething, virus, and impetigo, oh my!

Just can't get into the swing of parenting, working, and blogging.  In my last post I mentioned Evelyn's first real sickness.  We've been to the pediatrician more in the past month than in her whole 10 months.  And you go to the pediatrician a lot in the beginning.  Everyone said it would happen once she started daycare, but you always hope it will be different for your kid!

I can't even really remember how it all started.  I think it was a fever.  Probably teething related.  But it spiked pretty high for the first time right after her teeth broke through, and between that and the lingering gunky nose, we took her in.  It was a "virus" because according to all of the nurses and doctors at the pediatrician's office, teething doesn't cause fevers or runny noses.  Talk to any parent and they'll tell you otherwise.

Unfortunately with the fever spike we couldn't send her to school the next day, naturally.  She had a fun day at home with Daddy for part of the day and Aunt Kelly the other part.  The fever went up and down a bit, but nothing crazy so we sent her back to school and things were kind of back to normal, with the exception of a little cough that came out of nowhere.  We made it through the weekend, and through Monday and Tuesday with Mommom Lane and Aunt Nan, Wednesday at daycare, and then Thursday rolled back around.  And in our short time needing childcare, we have discovered that when things go wrong, they always go wrong on our daycare days, not when she's with family.

My Thursday went fine, but when I checked in with my mom toward the end of the day to make sure she would be picking up Evelyn like she usually does, she told me I better check my phone.  It was exploding with texts and phone calls from Steve about having to pick up Evelyn and take her to the doctor, where she saw my former childhood pediatrician and was diagnosed with some kind of infection.  He prescribed some amoxicillin and called it a day.  I was so impressed with how Steve handled everything!  He made the appointment, took her in, picked up the prescription, and got our sick girl home.  Because she truly was sick this time.

I got to cuddle with her the next morning, and then she had another afternoon with Aunt Kelly.  Poor thing really wasn't feeling well.  Saturday and Sunday rolled around and she seemed to be turning the corner, and then we noticed a little rash developing.  She didn't seem itchy or anything, but it seemed a little strange, so once again Steve took her in to get checked out.  It was one of two things, a rash caused by whatever infection she had or a reaction to the amoxicillin.  The doctor seemed to think it was from the fever, said keep an eye on it.  By Thursday the rash was everywhere, and so I made the phone call again.  Talked to a great nurse, who said if her fever wasn't back and she wasn't irritated by the rash, then we should just keep an eye on it some more, but it was probably a reaction to the amoxicillin rather than the fever rash.

So the rash started to fade over the weekend, Evelyn's mood was improving, her nose even cleared up for a day or two!

Then a week ago she woke up with what I thought was a pimple right above her lip.  By Sunday evening her whole mouth seemed a little red and splotchy and she had a really bad diaper rash.  Mommom came on Monday and tried to treat the diaper rash with some A&D, but that just made her scream.  Some nice, warm tubbies were all that made her poor little bottom feel better.  Another call to the doctor by Steve, and the recommendation was given to use some hydrocortizone on her rash on her bottom, but that didn't help her mouth.

Sunday morning - just a little red bump!

Monday evening - ugh!  

 Tuesday was Evelyn and Aunt Kelly day, and Nurse Kelly was not happy with how the rash wasn't healing at all and decided that calling the doctor wasn't going to cut it and that a visit needed to be made.  I rushed out of work right at 3:45 and managed to make it to the doctor by 4:30, where we waited forever, and she was finally diagnosed with a yeast infection (apparently very common about a week after taking an antibiotic) and impetigo.  Awesome.  The treatment?  Another antibiotic and a cream for the rash.  And impetigo is contagious and apparently very common in daycares, so no school for Evelyn this week!  We probably could have sent her a day after being on the antibiotic, but her rash was just gross and if I were another parent and saw her in my kid's class, I would have been a little concerned.

But one week later and the rash caused by the yeast infection is clearing up well and the impetigo sores around her mouth are healing well, even though they still look a little red (which apparently could last for quite a while).  The good news is she's back to her normal, happy self.  Hopefully she's going to stay that way for a while, although Steve and I both think we see her top teeth starting to move down.  :)

It really looks worse than it is at this point!