Tuesday, June 3, 2008

Hand, Foot, and....

The weekend starting off to be an uneventful, stay home weekend... and turned into craziness! Neela got her first haircut on Friday - just the bangs, but my camera battery died - so the pictures are Sydney's camera! We'll post them when we get them.

Friday night, Kylie was up from 11-3... then Neela woke up screaming at 4... then we went to gymnastics, and did a few things around the house. Saturday and Sunday were just lazy days... a bike ride in our "buggy" with Cy on the handlebars... Dad mowed the lawn, and Neela loved watching... grocery shopping...

THEN, the girls got rashes every time we went outside. We assumed heat rash and teething were irritating them... little did we know... one of my co-worker's children came down with "hand-foot-mouth" disease, and my co-worker played with the girls last week. The incubation period is 3-5 days, followed by a fever for 1-2 days, then blisters for 3-7 days... Both girls are beyond the fever, Neela is beyond the blisters, but Kylie still has blisters on her tongue. They've been miserable - but should only be contagious via "stools" (according to Mayo Clinic literature) now (they are supposed to only be contagious until the fever is gone...). Hopefully, they'll recover soon -- we can't take too many more nights like this, and keep working :-)

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