Give the Boy a Break!

Adlai has Hand, Foot and Mouth.  A contagious virus he picked up most likely at child care (there was a sign last week that someone had it).  Unfortunately we had sent him to day care thinking he had broken out - he has sensitive skin at times.  The day care assumed so also or we wouldn't have left him.  But that night, it was worse and it made me think.  Seth took him to the doctors the next day and they confirmed.  I took off Thursday and he stayed home with me.  Our day care centre has an awesome policy where you can sell you days.  If you can't use it and someone needs it, it's brilliant.  It just so happened that someone needed an extra day and they took our day.  I did find out later that there were about 5 cases of HF&M and they spent a lot of time cleaning and disinfecting everything and anything in the baby room !!

Anyway, several of the moms in my mother's group said their children had it as well.  Of course, they were better at determining what it was.  Adlai doesn't get sick like normal children apparently.  Usually with HF&M there is a fever and/or possibly vomiting that happens a couple days before the blisters present themselves.  Adlai didn't get any of that.  Which was another reason why we had no clue that he was infected with this icky virus.  He also didn't have 'normal' blisters.  He had a few in his mouth but only one on a hand and one on a foot and they looked like nothing.  Didn't look like a blister and nothing came out of it!  The only ones we could really see were on his face, around his mouth which started by looking like we didn't wash his face after he ate a bowl of peanut butter.

Anyway, I think he had a very mild case and he was running around a couple days later.  He still was quarantined but he was a happy clam.

And before you ask:  I do not feed my children bowls of peanut butter.  Although they might eat it.  I, on the other hand, would enjoy a bowl of peanut butter eaten with a bar of chocolate.