August 28, 2006
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Conor’s First: First Illness
Cheta-Conor
Conor is sick for the first time. Considering how prone to illness babies are, I think it is really good he has avoided it for so long! He had a fever for several days last week, and we brought him into the pediatrician. We were told the 101.x degree fever was related to teething and unless we saw any other symptoms he would be fine, and the fever could go on indefinitely. Other symptoms to look out for would be basically anything, things like rashes, ear hurting, etc.
Well, Saturday or so cute lil Conor became cuter with “cheta spots”.
Since he was sleeping I could not get a good shot, but this is the best one. They are around his chin/neck area here. They stood out a lot more when there were just a few- now there are a bunch of little red spots and they kind of stand out less. We’ve been giving him anti-alergy medicine as we felt it might be alergic, but when we called the pediatrician over the weekend she felt it was probably viral- as long as he did not get a high fever he was fine.
Well, now in addition to the spots he also has spots around his genitals- but in particular, pustuls/blisters that are bursting and becoming raw. So, while I was going to call and check in about it- Kat beat me to the punch and just called to reserve an appointment in a few hours. Heh heh- she is slow to consider the doctor for her, but when it concerns Conor it is “go to doctor first, ask questions later”. Not a bad philosophy overall, but I tend to think/talk it over unless it is clear quick action is needed.
I’m not too worried. Babies go through illnesses and Conor has gone a good while without them so far. Breastfeeding has protected him from a great many illnesses he might have otherwise faced, and “what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger” is true in the case of babies. He’ll get hardier and grow through this little spot of trouble… or should we say, spots of trouble? Hehehe.
Pray for a smooth diagnosis for Kat’s sake, and that Conor will be well soon.
As for Conor? He’s doing great otherwise. He is happy- the fever made him cranky but that stopped before the spots, and he’s happy and otherwise healthy it seems. The anti-alergenic really knocks him out good, though, so he sleeps a lot whenever we dose him with the prescribed amount. Oh, and we got the crib up finally! Kat went out and bought screwdrivers last night, and did it all. It’s great- we finally got to sleep without baby machine-gun kicking me all night! We had the baby monitor on, and Kat didn’t get much sleep- she didn’t fall asleep until after 3 AM and woke up at 7 AM! Poor dear- I think it is because it was the first night not sleeping with baby since we moved into the house. Baby, however, slept just fine.
-Patrick
UPDATE- It turns out that Conor has Roseola. The breaking out happens after his fever breaks, and is the result of the death of the virus- some sort of protein is apparently let out that causes the breaking out. Conor has apparently had a very mild case of it- it is a childhood disease that rarely spreads to adults and can (and was) easily be controlled by keeping the fever down with meds. Conor will probably have the rash/break-out for another five or more days.