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The Germans Seriously Lack Creativity
Mystery solved! Eva woke up on Sunday morning covered in a horrifying red rash. Roseola! My husband couldn’t really understand my happiness to find my child looking like a jar of spaghetti sauce had exploded in her crib. But he doesn’t understand the curse of Too Much Information. When a little one has a fever, I know (and I continually say!) that it is not so much about the fever as it is how she is acting. I didn’t actually take her temperature until the 2nd day and then only when she felt really hot and even then only for documentation purposes. I mean, what if it turned out to be something serious and when the doctors asked me how long she’d had a fever for I said something lame like, “Oh well she felt warm for 14 days,” or something equally unhelpful.
Anyway, knowing too much means that my mind was heading in all kinds of directions last week, from pneumonia to ears to bladder infections. Even though I knew that the runny nose and disgusting old man cough meant viral, I couldn’t help myself. So it was with a sigh of relief that I saw her rash on Sunday. Roseola: 3 days of high fever followed by a terrific rash. The Germans take it quite literally and call it: Dreitagefieber Glanzmann, which translates to, “Three Day Fever Glossy Man.” Germans are funny.
And this means that Zoe is probably next. After all, they lick the same floor at Gymboree. I’m half shocked that she’s remained completely well to date. On the other hand, I couldn’t have made it through the weekend with two of them clinging to my body, crying every time I tried to even go to the bathroom. So I guess that while it would be nice to get it all over with quickly, one sick kid at a time is probably more than enough, thank you.
p.s. I’ll post some pics on my Facebook page: Lara Zibners, MD
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