Well, Lily is officially sick.
Brendan had a fever of 103 last week, but it quickly went down and stuck around 100-101 for a day or two before disappearing all together.
Then a few days later, Lily developed a fever of nearly 104. Again, it was gone by the next morning (after a cool bath, tylenol and motrin) but hung out around 100 for a day before going away completely.
Last night, though, she started complaining that her tongue hurt. After looking in her mouth, we spotted a few small white ulcers on her tongue
Today we took her to the doctor, and in the time it took us to drive to the doctors office, she’d developed a large white ulcer on the tip of her tongue
She’s complaining about the pain a lot, so i’m keeping her on tylenol and giving her lots of cold stuff like milk, icecream and popsicles.
It could either be Herpangina (which Brendan and I both had a little over a year ago) or Hand Foot and Mouth.
Evidently HF&M Progresses into lesions on the hands and feet, while Herpangina progresses into swollen gums and lesions on the throat and soft palette. So we are kind of waiting to see which direction this heads. Not that it really matters, since both are viral and little can be done to help it (other than ease the pain).
Here are some pics I snagged in the doctors office. She was not doing too bad in these b/c I’d recently given her Baby Orajel, Thank goodness.




(this amuses me. Brendan saw that the camera was on, stuck his pointer finger in front of the lens and shouted “You’re number one!” LOL)