Quarantine

Quarantine "is used to separate and restrict the movement of well persons who may have been exposed to a communicable disease to see if they become ill.".^[1] The term is often erroneously used synonymously with isolation, which is "to separate ill persons who have a communicable disease from those who are healthy.

Being quarantined is NOT fun.  The boys and I have been quarantined for 4 days so far and we're not done yet :(

On Monday afternoon we took the boys out for snow cones. Corbin did not want more than two bites of his snow cone which was weird but he was acting fine so we weren't very concerned. On the way home he became hysterical in his car seat to the point that I had to crawl into the back seat with him (Scott was driving). Nothing I did could console him and he continued to scream nonstop the entire ride home. When we got out of the car he wouldn't let Scott hold him---he only wanted me---which if you know how much this child loves Scott, you would know that something was up. I immediately took him inside to check his temperature----sure enough 103 degrees!!! Poor baby did NOT feel good. We gave him some Tylenol and he just wanted me to hold him for the next couple of hours and I gladly did so. Then as we were watching tv, he preceded to throw up repeatedly all over me and himself right at bed time. So off to the bath we went and I was convinced he must have the stomach virus and that we were all going to get it within the next couple of days. However, he didn't get sick again for the rest of the night or the next day. He did continue to run a high fever all day on Tuesday and was very irritable. The nurse told us to come in on Wednesday if his fever wasn't gone and that he probably threw up because of his high fever.

On Wednesday he was still running a fever so I called early that morning to make an appointment and they told us to come in at 11:10. I noticed a small rash on one of his arms but other than that his only symptom was his fever. Between 8:00 and 11:00 the rash got worse and he started getting spots on his hands as well as his arms and then I knew------HAND, FOOT, AND MOUTH!!!

I have been dreading this virus since Cason was a baby! We saw our doctor and sure enough I was right. Poor thing has blisters on his hands, feet, arms, bottom, and all in his mouth! And since it is a virus there are NO medications we can give him other than Tylenol/Motrin. The doctor said he would be VERY surprised if Cason didn't get it too. So we are quarantined to our house and it is NO fun!

And I've been told that the rash peaks on day 4 (we are only on day 2 of the rash) and that it can take up to 3 weeks to completely go away!!! Corbin's 2nd birthday is Monday so poor baby will have all these blisters on his birthday :(  The doctor said they are only contagious while they have a fever and Corbin finally broke his fever thank goodness------so now we are just waiting for Cason's to start :(

All Corbin has really wanted is liquids and bananas. We ran out of bananas this morning and sweet Amy went and got us some at the grocery store---such a lifesaver!!!

Corbin's poor arm...

Banana lover...

He's been doing a lot of this....