False Alarm

So we went to see the doc­tor this after­noon. I called this morn­ing to get an emer­gency apt. The recep­tion­ist asked me how I knew it was chicken pox. I told her my daugh­ter was cov­ered in spots and that it was either chicken pox or menin­gi­tis, I got an appoint­ment. So by this after­noon I had expected blis­ters and the clas­sic CP symp­toms. It never hap­pened. She’s tired and sleep­ing a lot. Her appetite isn’t what it usu­ally is and she has a lit­tle cough and the occa­sional sneeze. So the doc looks her over, checks her lungs and presses against the spots to see if they dis­ap­pear, they do. I tell her I had expected the blis­ters and she agreed that if it was CP the spots would have become blis­ters. She thinks it’s a virus and one of the symp­toms of this virus is spots. Not much can be done, just wait it out. She wants me to keep an eye out for any changes to the spots as it might still be CP but she just doesn’t think it is. Sooo we’re left w/ a Spotty Squidgy­boo. She’s doing OK and has been in a great mood all day. She just tires eas­ily. Hope­fully she’ll be over what­ever it is she has by Sunday.

Here are some not so good pho­tos of her spots. I couldn’t get a very good shot of them. They’re spots all over her body that I expected would get big­ger and then begin to blis­ter and get all icky. Not going to hap­pen appar­ently.

Oh and Aquaba­bies called again today to can­cel the class. There’s some prob­lem w/ the pool. I was glad to hear from them because w/ Squidge being spotty I wasn’t plan­ning on going today. She told me she would be refund­ing us for the 2 classes that they have can­celled– Woohoo a whole 20GBP!!! I’m tak­ing a break this week from all of her groups and classes. She needs to rest and I don’t want to expose her to any­thing else this week! I would like my mother to see Squidge when she ISN’T sick.