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False Alarm

Posted on February 26, 2007

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.



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  • BlogWhore says:
    February 27, 2007 at 2:55 AM - Reply

    do i see squige bum?

    my best to the itchy one.

  • Rachel says:
    February 27, 2007 at 8:01 PM - Reply

    I just love chubby baby bums! Sorry to hear your wee one is bespot­ted — hope it goes away!

  • gledwood says:
    February 28, 2007 at 6:23 PM - Reply

    I remem­ber when I got chicken pox … actu­ally it’s one of the most mis­er­able mem­o­ries I have. But phys­i­cally speak­ing it is quite mis­er­able I hope your daugh­ter gets well soon. If you’re won­der­ing how I who you don’t know found your blog I just pressed at ran­dom that next but­ton at the top of mine and came to yours! Quite an inter­est­ing read I found here. I wish you all the very best. You’re most wel­come to drop round mine it’s gledwood2.blogspot.com. I look for­ward to see­ing you there! All the very best now from …

    Gled­wood

  • Vicbic says:
    February 28, 2007 at 10:44 PM - Reply

    Hey! I’m glad she doesn’t have chick­en­pox, for Sunday’s sake.

    Hope you have a nice rest­ful end of the week and a great time on Sunday

    V x