Hadley's Roseola

Sick Hadley with Cecilia scaling the fireplace hearth in the background.

Yep. We've had another round of illness in our house last week. And once again, Hadley was the lucky one to get sick.... sorry girl.

Hadley had been irritable and clingy for a few days. Then, one morning during a diaper change, I noticed her whole trunk and neck had a rash. It didn't seem to itch but it was obvious that she wasn't feeling well. Since it was the weekend, we did the one thing all doctors hate their patients to do... we self diagnosed on the internet! Our diagnosis: Roseola.

Roseola definitely had to be what Hadley had as the symptoms fit her perfectly. The symptoms were a recent fever (which I blamed on teething), a spotty rosy-pink rash, mild diarrhea, poor appetite, tiredness, red eyes, and swollen eyelids. I had planned to call the doctor on Monday but by then, the rash had almost disappeared and she was feeling better.  And being a virus (contagious mostly to kids under 3), we waited for Cecilia to come down with the same symptoms. Except for some diarrhea and clingy behavior, she never came down with a rash like her sister. So, mark off another illness for the Kaiser household this winter!