It's been a crazy week for health issues with the kids. I ended up taking all 4 kids to the doctor Thursday morning. We had dropped by the CVS Minute Clinic the day before but stumped a nurse practitioner who had practiced for 18 yrs. She couldn't figure out what the kids had. Turns out Andrew had the beginning stages of showing a poison oak rash and the other three kids had fifths. The three kids' rash looked so similar to Andrew's the day that we were there that she couldn't determine the virus because Andrew's was around his eyes. She thought that they all had the same thing so she sent us to our pediatrician.
Sadly, by the time that we were able to see the doctor the next day, it was apparent that Andrew had something completely different from his siblings. Also sadly, we have to pay a doctor's bill for them instead of the smaller minute clinic fee. We do not have a low co-pay with our insurance but a huge deductible and I am not looking forward to paying this doctor's bill. YUK! At least we know what they have now and only one is contagious today. No prescriptions were given.
Andrew's eyes are swollen and his face and torso are covered with the rash. Thankfully, he should be better soon though. The other 3 kids are on the tail end of their fifths, not contagious anymore and just have the rash left. What was sad was that we totally contaminated our PE class, Scouts pack, American Heritage Girls group, and AWANA last week. When you are most contagious, you have no symptoms and feel and look healthy, then the rash comes on many days later. By then, you aren't contagious but look terrible. Most children get fifths before they are 4 yrs. old too. With the kids not being in daycare and public school, we didn't catch it until now. Here's what Caleb's looked like for 5 days. Sad.
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