Last night I was making supper (buttercup squash and leek soup) and some of it spattered and burned my hand… I put my hand under a bit of water and continued to do what I was doing… my hand kept on burning though and when I finally looked at it I saw that it was already blistering…

omg… it hurt…

(the soup was good though…. )

I kept a cold cloth on it for about 2 hours and then decided to bandage it up… It was really red and I had two blisters forming… I put some honey on it… bandaged it up and the pain started to go away…

When I woke up this morning most of the redness was gone, the pain is mostly gone…  but it is still there…. I need to finish some sewing for the hallow’een costumes… and I can’t move my hand freely…

I was also planning on going swimming today… we’ll see…

Colin’s Torso a lot better today… still blotchy but not raised like yesterday…

However… his face and arms and legs are now like what his torso was yesterday…

I few good friends suggested that it looks like fifth disease… and it could very well be… though they do not have the “slapped cheek” or the usual presentation it would fit the timeline and the symptoms…

I need to go to the ped office today to pick up a referral for a blood test for Khéna so I might mention my suspicions to the secretary to pass on to the doctor…

I am going to be so happy if this means no allergies… but of course we will officially see that in a few weeks…

This time… in Colin…

I am starting to wonder if this was all just a Virus or something…

Khéna had hives… then a few days later got croup…

Colin and Xavier both have a something that is cold-like… so there is some kind of virus here…

hmmmm….

i wonder….

After venting a bit on my favourite message board someone gave me an idea…

Call back the hospital and get onto the cancellation list.

The secretary asked me a few questions and though I had said it all yesterday it seemed to register a bit more today and after realizing that he was pretty much EBF, that it was most likely something that he had just had contact with and not had eaten etc.. she said that she would talk to the doctor to see what he thought and then she would call me back in the afternoon…

so I waited…

She called back and said that the doctor would like us to come in sooner and that they could give us an appointment for Nov 8th… of this year….

So… I feel a bit better… Just a few weeks and we will be able to maybe start knowing what he is and hopefully isn’t allergic to…