Saturday, September 11, 2010

On the up and up... hopefully!

Kinsley is still covered with spots but the first ones that showed up on her back are beginning to fade.  The spots moved from her torso, up her neck to her face, then down her arms and are now spreading down her bottom to her legs and feet.  She's still feeling fine. Yesterday she had a lowgrade fever of 100 so I've been keeping an extra close eye on her.  I did a little research online (after some coaxing from my brother) and found that there are other kiddos who have been through the same thing.  There are pics of other kids who had the exact same rash as Kinsley.  I'm fairly certain this is from the MMR vaccine and is a case of either the fake Measles or Rubella.  The other thing that was interesting was that the other mom's reported a high fever about a week before the rash. Bingo! Kinsley's fever was up to 103.3 a week prior to the rash.  When I took her to the doctor's they said she had an ear infection. Looking back, I'm not so sure the fever was caused by the ear infection.  I'm also not so sure she had an ear infection.  When the resident (not her usual doc) looked at her right ear, she said "looks good" then looked at her left ear. Then she said she wanted to check the right ear again and said, "Um, that ear's infected."  Huh?  Anywho, whether she had an infection or not. she doesn't have one now, and has taken 10 days of antibiotics... which no, did not cause the rash. Ugh! Lots to consider here! Who knew this parenting thing was so darn confusing?  I'm just glad she's been in good spirits and has been sleeping through the night (knock on wood!). 
Hope everyone has a beautiful, enjoyable weekend! We plan to since Louie is off this weekend.  He's currently snoozing next to me on the couch with a little college football on TV and Miss Kinsley is taking a nap.  Nice day. :)
Love,
Catherine

1 comment:

Heidi said...

Parenting can be confusing- just when we think we have it all figured out...

I am glad to hear she hasn't felt bad through all of this!