Guess what we've got?!

         I really thought when I took Gabriella to the doctor last Friday for her re-check from having bronchitis that we were in the clear and things were going to start looking up in the sickness category. Little did I know that was not going to be the case. Friday, the 8th she had her 9 month check-up (yes, at 10 1/2 months my little one is getting her check-up, it was cancelled before because of all that snow we got in January, LOL), and she met all of her developmental milestones. Dr. Megan listened to her lungs, checked her ears, eyes, and throat. All of them checked out. She did have a runny nose but Dr. Megan noticed that she is cutting her EIGHTH! tooth on the bottom left...so we attributed it to that. We got a steroid cream for her eczema so that we can control her flare-ups.
        Fast forward to Saturday...it was a normal day. We did some housework around the house in the morning. David went to the new house to meet with an air conditioning dude to have our systems checked out....thankfully everything was good with them. When DW got back home I went with one of my best buds grocery shopping. We had a nice 4 hour trip, it was great to get out of the house without the kiddos and have some adult talk. While we were shopping DW and the kids went to the woods and Gabriella slept in the Ergo while they walked in the woods. Saturday night I noticed that Gabriella was braking out in what I thought was hives or maybe she was having an eczema flare-up. I didn't think much about it and put some cream on her.
       We woke up late Sunday mainly because G did not sleep well AT ALL. When we got up we saw that she was broke out all over!!! I immediately thought it was chicken pox but I was seriously hoping that it wasn't. David and I agreed that we needed to take her to the ER, which is 45 minutes away. I took a shower and we got ready. We dropped Jacob off at my parents and headed to Tuscaloosa.
        Sure enough...she has chicken pox. We were immediately taken back so as not to infect others.

 

The ER doctor said that there was really nothing he could do for her. Said for us to give her oatmeal baths, Tylenol for fever (which she did run a pretty good low grade fever for a couple days), and to coat her in calamine lotion.

 



As bad as these two look...this was not the worse of it. I haven't taken any more pictures of the pox because when she is undressed she attempts to claw at them and I don't want her to scar.

 

G enjoyed playing on the hospital bed with her daddy!! We were there for about 3 hours so it was all we could do to keep her occupied and sitting still. She didn't feel well but she also didn't want to sit still. Thank goodness there was a television in the room with us.

After a while she gave up on playing and decided she would much rather nap with her daddy. =)

 

 



My sweet girl! It was so hard seeing her feel so bad.

 

       The hardest day was definitely Sunday night into Monday morning. She just could not get comfortable. I know the pox had to be itching her and making her miserable. David tried to get her to sleep and lay her down in bed but she would wake up each time. Finally, around 11:30 pm I got up and took her. Unfortunately, I started coming down with a cold on Saturday so I my nose was so stopped up I was just about as miserable as G was. We slept for a few hours in the recliner and then she woke up and I coated her in calamine again. Once she feel back to sleep I was able to put her in bed. She slept till 9 Monday morning. =)

         So, I guess the good side of all this is that now the pox are done and over with. She won't get them when she is older and its one less shot she has to get now. I was worried that Jacob might get them but he was vaccinated so the doctor's said he should be fine.

 

        I'm just so ready to be free and clear of all sickness!! =)