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So. Liam had a rough night, which I was attributing to teething (he's got big teeth pushing little teeth out in the front). He was pretty good when he woke up, until we asked him, "So, what do you want for breakfast?"

"No thank you, I'm not hungry."

Hubby and I just looked at each other because he NEVER says that. Not in the morning and not while he's getting ready for school. So...it was definitely home from school time.

Hubby took Liam to see the doctor.

Long story short, my son has scarlet fever.

I initially freaked out--then I found out it's simply a strain of strep. A fairly serious, but easy to treat strain nevertheless.

Still. Freaky. The first time I ever heard about scarlet fever was when I read the Little House on the Prarie books. For a horrible moment, I thought my son was going to go blind.

As it turns out, Liam will be on antibiotics for ten days and he should be fine, though we're going to have to wash everything he touches tomorrow before he can re-infect himself. He's still contagious now, so we'll wait till he's not before doing the Mad Cleaning Mambo.

So...that's pretty much been my day.

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[sharkbait.livejournal.com]

If he doesnt have a rash yet, he could still break out in one, just a fine, red, tiny little rash. My daughter had strep numerous times (and probably shouldve had her tonsils out but I avoided it at the time 'cause she'd had her appendix out and I didnt want to do another surgery so close to it) and almost always got that scarlet fever rash with it.

Hope he feels better soon!

[shellebelle93.livejournal.com]

He's got the rash, but he dresses himself and we don't watch him, so we never saw it. He seems pretty good right now, though.

And hopefully he'll sleep.