Off to a Rough Start

The year hasn't started the best for Logan. The day of his blessing he woke up with a fever and was very irritable. We knew something was wrong because he is normally such an easy, happy go-lucky baby. We gave him some gas medicine, thinking that might help relieve some pain, and that didn't seem to help calm him. We moved on to baby Tylenol, hoping that it would help to reduce his temperature. It did a little bit but later Sunday night a rash started to break out on his face. At about 9:00 pm I noticed that his hands were swollen. Then the swelling started to move up to his arms and in his feet. It was the weirdest thing. Ricky and I spent a couple hours researching online to find out if Logan's symptoms matched a specific diagnosis. Of course, there were a couple things that we thought it could be but nothing matched it exactly. I was pretty sure that we were going to end up in the ER that night with him. We called his pediatrician who said to just watch his temperature and the swelling in his neck. If Logan showed any signs of trouble breathing, he said we were to take him to the ER. Well, duh! I thought that was pretty obvious but I guess that's what he had to tell us. Logan's temperature hovered around the high 99's so we decided to just take him to the doctor's office Monday morning. Ricky was such a good dad and set his alarm to go off every hour so that he could check on Logan.

First thing Monday morning Ricky had him in to see the pediatrician. She of course didn't have many answers for us. She said it was likely viral and just monitor it. Well duh, I could have guessed that much by what I read online. I was a bit frustrated with the two doctors. Ricky has been telling me for years that doctors don't have real answers to anything. They have standard answers like, just wait, we'll monitor it, or here is a general prescription that could help. That's what we were dealing with here too. Just wait.

It's now Wednesday and the swelling is gone, about 95% of his rash has cleared up, but he's still fighting a fever. So, we're not out of the woods yet but we're getting there. The thing I don't like is that we still don't have answers as to why this happened or what caused it. Logan is definitely a trooper though. I think the fact that he is 13.9 pounds has helped him beat whatever he has. I hope it will be done with by tomorrow. It's hard to see your baby in pain and having such a tough time. Poor little guy.

These aren't the best pictures because we took them with our phones.

It stared with a few dime size, light red circles on his face.

Then it spread to his legs...

and arms.

I first noticed the swelling in his hands. You couldn't see his knuckles. When I pushed on them he would start to cry so I knew it hurt him.

Then his poor little feet were swollen. They weren't as bad as his hands and arms but they were really red too.