It’s back.

After trying to get rid of it for almost a month, and thinking that I had served up my last dose of antibiotics, this stinking disease has returned.

SCARLET FEVER!
I just finished giving my son’s medicine to him Monday and then yesterday afternoon, I saw a rash on my daughter.  It wasn’t there in the morning when I got her dressed and it was there by noon.  Oh, how I prayed it was a sunburn.

It was a small miracle that I gave my son each of his doses on time since I have great difficulty remembering medicine doses.  As we waited in the doctor’s office for the strep test to come back, I paced wishing it was something that didn’t require medicine.   “Please let it be a virus or a blistering sunburn,” I selfishly thought.  No such luck.

So no we’ve got the medicine and are at 1 dose down, 19 to go.  Somewhere in the middle of this course, we will be moving.  I’ll have to transport the medicine in a red cooler marked ‘biohazard ‘ (it’s not, but I should get some fun out of this somehow).  I’ll have to find refrigeration at the other end of the journey.  Worst of all, I will have to remember to give her 19 more doses on schedule.

I want them (whoever ‘them’ is) to spray the earth with antibiotics, twice a day for 10 days, just to eradicate this bug.  Just so I never have to see it in my kids again.  Give me ear infections or regular strep,  but this one always worries me more.  It’s probably the name but I just want it to be gone forever.