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Oct. 31st, 2011 10:36 pm
Now, Evangeline developed a sore throat and off-and-on headache Wednesday afternoon. Thursday she stayed home, Friday she went in but the fever and headache came back in the afternoon. She went to the nurse, who determined it was far too late in the day to be worth sending her home (unbeknownst to her, due to the train schedule I show up 30 minutes early every day). After she went up with her dad, at some point she got a rash, which lasted the whole of the weekend and right up until today.
So she went to the doctor. It was either doctor first and miss school, or school first and miss trick-or-treating, and though we probably should've chosen the latter we felt no compunction about choosing the former. She still sobbed wildly. She wanted that parade and party.
Of course, by the time we saw the doctor it was the end of the school day anyway. What a waste of a day, only to find out that...
It's strep. Yeah, Eva probably (the rapid stress test is more rapid than accurate) has strep. A mild case that likely isn't contagious at this point, but I spent this evening picking up medicine anyway.
Strep with a rash, of course, is the same disease as scarlet fever, though for some reason that's not fully understood (and it's not JUST antibiotics) it became much less serious after the midpoint of the last century. I wish I'd just known that. I wish any of us had known that, the reaction among all the adults (excepting my mother, who had scarlet fever as a child, and Michele, whose kids get strep three times a year and in fact have it right now - I called her to warn her it's being passed around again, but it was too late) was "Really? I thought that mostly touched the throat!"
But no.
Also, I have to go back to the supermarket tomorrow to finish my shopping. Got there after the fish counter closed, darn it.
So she went to the doctor. It was either doctor first and miss school, or school first and miss trick-or-treating, and though we probably should've chosen the latter we felt no compunction about choosing the former. She still sobbed wildly. She wanted that parade and party.
Of course, by the time we saw the doctor it was the end of the school day anyway. What a waste of a day, only to find out that...
It's strep. Yeah, Eva probably (the rapid stress test is more rapid than accurate) has strep. A mild case that likely isn't contagious at this point, but I spent this evening picking up medicine anyway.
Strep with a rash, of course, is the same disease as scarlet fever, though for some reason that's not fully understood (and it's not JUST antibiotics) it became much less serious after the midpoint of the last century. I wish I'd just known that. I wish any of us had known that, the reaction among all the adults (excepting my mother, who had scarlet fever as a child, and Michele, whose kids get strep three times a year and in fact have it right now - I called her to warn her it's being passed around again, but it was too late) was "Really? I thought that mostly touched the throat!"
But no.
Also, I have to go back to the supermarket tomorrow to finish my shopping. Got there after the fish counter closed, darn it.
