Its Fifth's Disease!

After today I am still...............................



SMILING!!!

What a rough night! Eli did not feel well and was just not himself. He started to break out in a rash on Sunday but then it was going away, but he was banging his head on the floor and ultra irritable etc.  Also I left the dogs out last night as Anthony was not home. Eli came out of his room  to come upstairs and it scared the dogs. They freaked out so I woke up at midnight after I had just fallen asleep to a blood curdling scream!! My heart was in pieces. I don't think I have ever run that fast down the stairs and don't ever want to again. I don't ever want to hear any of my kids scared and make that kind of a noise again. That is how the night began. At that point Lilliana wakes up scared so I threw them both in my bed. Only for us to all fall back asleep and the dogs to hear fireworks going off at 1:30 in the morning and go barreling down the stairs again and the kids wake up screaming scared again!!! By this point I throw them in their kennels and say forget it! Oh and if anybody ever tries to break in to our house I feel bad for them. I think my dogs would probably rip them to shreds.  We ended up camping out in the living room watching Wall-E at 2 in the morning.


So this morning he woke up and his rash was worse. I decided it was time to haul him to the Dr. Mind you I had about 3 hours of sleep. His regular Dr. was not in. Honestly we have been battling the allergy thing so I just chalked it all up to that! He told me his ears hurt too which usually means his runny nose etc has caused an infection. This is a comparison I did this morning of his rash.


I call Aunt Toni just to see if she can watch Miss Lilliana while I go so I can just focus on Eli and get some answers because I really felt that if this was allergies we needed to be referred to an allergy specialist as I felt I can do no more and really need to know what is causing all these problems. She was so great and took Eli so I could rest before I went since I was so tired. She also agreed to watch Lilliana.

She took Eli to go play at Uncle Todd's house. As they were out there it got worse! So we thought it was sun related. She brought him by our house before she took him to go eat lunch and everything so I could see it. Here is what it had become..............



I felt so bad for him! My heart sank. He was still happy but I could tell something was wrong.

Finally it was time to take him. We were not gone long. The nurse said it was Fifths Disease. As soon as the Dr. saw it he agreed. He probably had a headache from it just did not feel well so that explained the weird behavior.  There was nothing I could do about it! I was happy to know it was not an allergy problem. He also did not have an ear infection. Thank goodness! This is the first Dr. visit all year so I hope that means we are staying on top of it with dealing with his allergies. He then went back to Aunt Toni's and spent the afternoon.

Lilliana and I spent the rest of the day together. She has been a little crabby so she went to bed early. She was pretty happy earlier though. She has found her feet but her belly is too big to get them to her mouth.


So here is to hoping tonight and tomorrow are a little easier!