All jokes aside, I was little concerned how Gracie came down with this dreadful disease. At first our daycare thought it might be chickenpox, but thankfully they were wrong. What a cruel joke that would have been, since she is getting the chickenpox vaccine at her 12 month appointment in two weeks.
This disease is named for the blister-like rash that appears on a child's hands, feet, and mouth. Gracie has them all over her legs and arms as well, but none on her trunk (which is why I was shocked when daycare suggested it might be the pox).
At first we thought they were just bug bites since they appeared the night after she's played in the grass at my dad's house in Nashville (a separate post about our trip to follow). But she was very fussy that day, and then she got more bumps and we had the questions at daycare. So, Trinity took her to the doctor, who noticed she had blisters on the roof of her mouth as well. Poor baby!
The rash seems to be subsiding slowly, but the blisters on her feet seem to be the worst! And of course this comes as she's trying to walk. Thankfully they don't seem to bother her too much any more, and she's back to her normal self. She only had to stay home from daycare one day, as the disease is not contagious once the fever is gone and the rash appears. And when we went back to school on Tuesday, two other kids arrived with the same rash. I'm still trying to decide which one of them started the epidemic... in a non-judgmental way of course! I'm sure it wasn't Gracie; at least one of the other kids has it worse.
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