today, livie was feeling really well...just about back to her normal spunky self. we had a follow-up appointment with her doctor this afternoon, and we discussed her further symptoms (peeling on the palms of her hands and soles of her feet as well as a very pink tongue). he has confirmed that she's had scarlet fever, but that the progression of it has been halted by her having been on antibiotics. i am relieved, but of course have spent enough time doing the "what if" dance that i'm a little wigged out. if i hadn't taken her to the doc on tuesday, she could be very seriously ill right now with possible heart and/or kidney complications. thank god this is not the case, but it does make me nervous that we are about to travel out of the country for nine days. we are taking a cruise to three different cities in vietnam and ending in singapore, so it's not like we're hiking the back country with no access to modern medicine for nine days, but the what ifs are ringing through my head regarding quinn. i am still hopeful that quinn has dodged this bullet, and i know that not every kid who gets strep also gets scarlet fever, but i worry nonetheless. it's my job....i'm the mom :-)
so other than the minor mental meltdown, the day was pretty terrific. quinn enjoyed his lego class, the kids and i had a great morning and afternoon, we survived the doctor's office without undue drama (i refuse to let the kids play with the toys there, and that causes some drama), and we had a nice evening with dinner at home and then a trip to our favorite frozen yogurt place. we are all super excited about our cruise. we leave early tomorrow afternoon and will not have access to the interwebz while we are floating around, so there will be a texpat hiatus until next weekend.
livie serenades waffle after she traps him inside her IKEA egg chair with her. i especially enjoyed the part about his cute orange butt :0
Have an awesome time! I can't wait to hear about it!
ReplyDeletehave fun!! both vietnam and singapore are on our list, so looking fwd to hearing all about it.
ReplyDeleteI'll try and catch up with the blog in 8 days from.. wait for it... AMSTERDAM!! =D we fly out next weekend and 4 days later we fly to Zurich. I should have some downtime at night when the kids go to bed, so will definitely try and catch up with your cruise adventure then.