The Measles

On December 18th, Camden has his 1 year old Dr. appointment. I took him, he had his appt., all looked well except for he was starting to get a small ear infection. He didn't have a fever or anything, he had just had a cold for the past few days, so we got a prescription for his ears, got his immunizations done, and we were on our way. 

Christmas Eve, the little man starting acting a little weird. He was really whiny and he kept grabbing at his ears, he also had a fever. So, we thought, ok, maybe the prescription isn't working and he still has an ear infection. I also noticed though that on the leg he got his MMR vaccine in, there was a little red spot about the size of a nickel. I thought that was a little weird, but thought that maybe he got a bug bite or something and thought nothing else of it. Christmas day he was an absolute mess, waking up a couple of times during the night on Christmas eve and then waking up at 5 AM screaming and could not be consoled. At this point he had gone through quite alot of Tylenol and was still just a mess, so I thought, "ok, we will take you in tomorrow to the Dr. if you don't get better."

He started acting a little better and didn't wake up at all that night. He even slept in the next morning until 8:30. When he woke up though, he had a little rash starting on his face and stomach. I text Geoff to see what he thought and still decided to wait it out. (It wasn't very bad at this point and I thought that maybe it was a fever rash since he had had a fever for a few days now.) I laid him down for his nap and when he woke up, he looked 10 times worse. It wasn't just a small rash anymore. So we took him to the Dr. She said she had no idea what it could be besides an awful reaction to the MMR vaccine. She said she sees it maybe one time a year and that was all she could think it was. She said he basically has the measles and that it will start to go away within 3-5 days. 

 Here he is the morning it started.

 Here he is after his first nap... starting to spread to his back

 Here he is after his second nap...starting to look diseased.

Here he is day 2 at breakfast. He looked just awful. Poor kid. Macie was really worried that we were going to be taking him out in public...she didn't want to be embarrassed by him. Sadly this is the last picture I have of him. It got worse as the day went on, and continued to spread all over his body. (We are pretty sure that this is why he was grabbing at his ears. They were inside his ears as well.) On Sunday morning he woke up with his face looking almost normal and the rest of his body looking worse. It looked as though it was just working its way down his body. By Tuesday he was almost looking completely normal. We went through at least a bottle of Tylenol during this whole process. Poor thing. It was really sad to see him feeling so gross and itchy and in pain. He was a mess for at least a week (and when I say mess, I mean mess...he wasn't eating normal, he completely stopped and downright refused to drink any milk for about 4 days, we could only get him to drink apple juice. We are just grateful that he would drink something though. All he wanted was to be held and he did was cry all.day.long.) Luckily (for everyone)he is feeling and acting  and looking completely normal again!