Fish and Chips Story — The Story of Us

Well it’s Officially August! Which means we are a week into our year round homeschooling with Alora and Zoë is trucking right along in life. We just got over a large scare, Zo had hand, foot and mouth disease. (Sounds gross doesn’t it? Well it is.) For about 5 days she had 103 plus temperature, followed by a full body rash and large sores in her throat and mouth. This would be painful in anyone, but put it in a 15 month old body it’s horrible. Now it could have been much worse 1) she could have had massive fluid filled sores on her feet and hands too, but she didn’t 2) she could have been absolutely unbearable with all the pain and misery, but she wasn’t. Truthfully, Jason and I let the fever go for 2 1/2 days thinking it would go down, because she was acting like nothing was wrong. When I took her into the dr.’s off the physician’s assistant said she just had a fever, lungs ears and heart checked out fine. It wasn’t until the dr. came in and looked at her throat and noticed just the beginnings of a miniscule rash on her arm that he knew it was hand foot and mouth disease. He said “Most kids who have this are so miserable they do nothing but scream for 10 days!” Because folks here’s the kicker, it’s a virus! That means nothing that medicine has created can stop this from taking it’s course. The prescription: ibuprofen for pain, fluids and sleep. That’s it so 5 days with 103 plus temp (that’s after the ibuprofen), throat sores for 7 days and 10 days later a little rash left, but no longer contagious. Zoë is a trooper! She was just a little cuddly and wanted to sleep, no screaming fussing or mussing.

So that is how we spent the last half of July homeschooling and with hand foot and mouth disease. As for the rest of the month we celebrated the fourth of July with a family reunion and some backyard fireworks and kept our cool on the hot days of the month by playing in the sprinklers.

check out our pics in the gallery to see all the excitement.