Thanks....

to all those concerned about me last week. I appreciate all the get well wishes! It was a very long week as I was a very sick little girl. I started getting sick on Monday with a fever. That fever spiked to 105.3 on Tuesday afternoon and I had a mild seizure. My mom called the ambulance because she was so scared as I would not answer or look at her. The ambulance strapped my carseat to the stretcher and transported me and my mom to the hospital. At this point I had come to and really didn't know what the heck was going on. My dad met us at the hospital and they gave me some stronger medicine to get my fever down. They ran all sorts of blood and urine work along with chest x-rays and said all was normal....that I probably had a virus. Let me tell you...for being that sick...I was a trooper with all the poking at me. We came home that night and managed the fever througout the night. The next day we went to the dr and my fever was up again...103.8..then 20 min later...105. The dr. got it down to 102.5 and sent us home. My mom seemed to think that I needed to be in the hospital but the dr. said just to have my parents manage the fever at home. And... so they did for the next 3 nights...every 3 hrs..motrin and tylenol. We were at the dr everyday to see if they could learn anything new...after mono tests, flu tests, strep tests, etc....everything was still negative. FINALLY on Friday morning, I woke up with a rash all over my body and then during my nap the fever broke...YEAH!! I carried a mild fever for the next day or so but nothing compared to what it was before...and I'm finally starting to feel like myself. The drs. still won't say for sure what I had except that it was a big ugly virus but my symptoms seemed to fit exactly to the roseola virus. My mom diagnosed me after seeing my rash:) Baby measles is another name for the roseola virus. Coincidentally, I had my measels, mumps and rubella vaccine 4 days before starting the fever....hmmm...sounds fishy to me. The drs...say probably just a coincidence...but we don't fully buy it.