Midnight Musings

Evan's currently working through a bout with Hand, Foot, and Mouth Disease. Not only is this one of the very few diseases that come with their own set of commas, it's pretty painful as well. Kim had noticed a rash so faint that I honestly didn't even think it was a rash earlier this week. I told her not to worry because she's always noticing little bumps and rashes that never amount to anything and then worrying about them. The kid has no fear and he plays outside a lot during the day. He's going to get bug bites, smalls scratches and allergic reactions from the grass. This time, however, the rash turned out to be something. By Thursday, he'd stopped wanting to eat and getting him to drink was difficult, so we took him to the doctor to find out that he was likely infected with a strain of Coxsackievirus. I think the name of that virus is pretty funny, but the results, tenderness in the hands and feet and painful sores and ulcers in the mouth and throat, are definitely not funny. We've had to really work to get Evan to drink and eat anything, and so far we've been moderately successful, but the little guy will often ask for something to drink then look at his cup and start crying instead of drinking because he knows it's going to hurt.