Hand Foot Mouth...Oh My!

I don't take it for granted that my kids do not get sick that much.  In fact I think about it all the time and thankful we have such healthy children.  So,...I'll try not to complain to much about this, but it just needs to be documented.  Our family came down with Hand Foot Mouth Disease last week!!!!  And we got a really bad case of it over here.  Sadly we got it from poor cute Owen who we saw the day before they realized they had it.  Owen, Max and Whitney all got it and it sounds like they got a bad case of it as well.  Lori and Landon got a mild case of it thank goodness for them.

Jaron came down with a fever and by the next day would not eat anything.  I could see a couple sores in his mouth but by the way he was not eating I'm sure he had a lot more.  Saturday I could not get him to drink anything.  We tried spoon feeding him formula, water, pedialyte, anything.  I could get about an ounce in and then that was it.  By Saturday night I was feeling worried and his diapers were becoming wet about every 8 hours.  They say you need a wet diaper every 6-8 hours.  By Sunday morning he was inconsolable, wouldn't eat or drink anything, had no tears when he was crying and hadn't had a wet diaper for 12 hours.  So...off to the ER we went.  I love the ER right here in Draper, never crowded, we walked right in and had the place to ourselves.  I knew he just needed some fluids and so they hooked him up and gave him some, with a popsicle as well, which he ate only a few licks.  He came home and slept 3 1/2 hours and luckily after that I could kind of keep up on it.  And no you aren't seeing double, Jaron likes to sleep with 2 binkies, one for his mouth and one to hold.

He got it the worst in our family.  Huge welts around his mouth, hands and feet and then had little dots all up his arms and legs. The bigs ones all blistered.  He looked awful!  Even now 1 1/2 weeks later the big welts are still healing.

Siena and Aria got it a few days later and one day apart from each other.  And then I came down with a really bad sore throat (in fact I can't think of a time my throat has hurt worse) and a fever.  My fever came and went for 3 days straight...so awful to feel that achy, yuck.  We watched A LOT of movies.  One day Aria fell asleep on the couch watching Frozen, then Siena kept talking loudly and as I turned around when I heard Aria stir, I saw Aria like this.  She had her fingers in her ears and slept like this for another 20 mins.  I guess you just do these things when you are used to sharing a room with your twin and want to get some sleep.

We stayed home for 9 days hoping not to infect anyone else.  By about day 6 we were going stir crazy. So one night we headed up to Silver Lake and had a picnic and walked around the lake.  It was so nice to get out of the house and just what everyone needed.  The girls hardly ate dinner they were too busy chasing chipmunks all around the picnic table.  And don't look at their outfits, they dressed themselves that day and I wasn't going to fight it.

That night there was a knock at our door and Whitney and Jeff had left a little hand foot mouth care package because they felt so bad that they had given it to us.  Which I don't blame them for giving it to us at all since they had no idea they were getting it when we saw them but still it was such a nice gesture and the ice cream was sooo yummy, Caramel Cone, go get some...now!  So cute and creative...and so so nice and thoughtful of them.

We are happy to report we are all better and were not contagious just in time for Jaron's big 1st birthday. So happy that we are usually very healthy and don't get sick that often.