The past three weeks have been awful health-wise for my kids, Evelyn in particular. She had roseola on week, which involved temperatures of 105, a terrified mom and eventually a terrified daycare when she broke out in a purple rash about 48 hours after the fever had broken. Then last week another high fever for a few days. Now we're trying to figure out if she has pink eye or just allergies.
So far I have no idea what to believe. With Rags it was so easy to tell. With her...well, they're totally different. The goo gets really bad a half hour after coming inside, fades away overnight along with the swelling, only to return (but only a tiny bit) after going from the house to the car. I'm stumped.
If she wakes from her nap with goo, we'll just go to the pediatric urgent care clinic - I don't want her to have to deal with it any longer than necessary, and I'm going out of town next Wednesday, which will make her miserable anyway. This is probably the worst thing about parenting (other than meting out discipline, a necessary evil, though I understand why some kids are spoiled).
Oh, well. Given my last year, if this is the worst of my problems, I'll take it. But I'm so tired of being covered with bodily fluids. I'm also done with feeling like I need a shower more often than not. Ick.
