Big surprise, I know. It seems that every time there is a big break in my blog, it's because we are battling some illness. This time it was Hand Foot and Mouth disease that spread through the family for more than 2 weeks. Katie got it first. Once I knew she had it, I was SO CAREFUL to push hand washing, even more than normal. But I think everyone else was exposed long before we knew she had it. We've never had HFM before and oh my gosh, it was miserable!!! Poor Katie didn't eat or drink for 5 days. And wasn't herself for another week. Just this last week she has finally been feeling better and is laughing and joking with us. It's so nice to have the real Katie back! Then Elizabeth and Caleb got it. Both had only a few blisters, but higher fevers, so I guess their body fought it off better. Lydia got it and was as miserable as Katie was. She had to write me notes on her iPod because it hurt so bad to talk. :( Nathan got it after we thought everyone was better. He wouldn't/couldn't talk either. We all drank a lot of Slurpees during this time. That was seriously the ONLY thing they could eat or drink for day! And the only thing that even remotely gave them some relief.
This is probably gross to most, but I just have to post these pictures because I couldn't believe these awful blisters. All the kids got them on their tongue, sides of their cheeks, throat, and on their hands and feet. Ignore Katie's blue tongue in the third picture. She had just had a blue slurpee.
OUCH, huh?!!!
And just as they were all getting better, I got a kidney infection. I NEVER get fevers, and if I do, they're NEVER high. The last time I had a fever was in 2009. I had a fever for 5 days... and it was high! (102) No fun!! Got antibiotics, finally feeling better. Yay!
Bummer... Glad our kids never got this!
ReplyDeleteHope everyone's feeling better now. I had herpangina in February and it was so horrible, I can relate to the HFM.
ReplyDeleteHere's a gross pic from when it first started [you've been warned!]:
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y236/Panya/bouche1_zpsc8686cd3.jpg
After that they were covering every surface in my mouth -- my throat, tongue, cheeks, and the worst, my gums. I couldn't eat anything except ice cream and ice-cold pudding for almost two weeks. At first I could drink smoothies and milkshakes, but then I couldn't even drink through a straw because the vacuum pushed the sores against my teeth. Toward the end I could eat gruel [baby cereal], but it was excruciating to eat anything until the majority of the sores healed in my mouth.
I don't even know how I got it, since no one I'd been in contact with had it, but I really, really hope I never have it again!