Roseola Virus

Natalie ended up getting the Roseola virus this week. Our poor sweetie was miserable! Starting on Monday night, she started getting pretty high temperatures (102.6). By the morning it would drop again to a low grade fever but then by mid afternoon, it was elevated again. Wednesday night she had a fever of 104.2. The after-hours nurse recommended we take her into the ER to get checked even though we'd already got the fever down to 103 by giving her a cool bath and using wet wash clothes. The ER was horrible! Poor Natalie -- we got there at 7 p.m. and didn't leave until 10:00 p.m. (which I suppose isn't too bad when you think about time in the ER) but they had to get a urine and blood sample from her. They had to try twice to get the catheter in and three times to find her tiny little veins for blood. We were about to go ballistic on the nurses if they tried to stick her one more time. She was so miserable! It was so hard seeing her cry like that. The ER doctor couldn't pin down anything majorly wrong with her (which was good) and thought it might just be a virus. We took her into the pediatrician the next day as a follow-up to the ER visit. Dr. Bernstein thought that because her only symptom was a high fever that came and went over 3-4 days she probably had the Roseola virus. We would know for sure if she broke out in a rash after her fever broke. Well, her fever finally broke on Thursday afternoon. On Friday, she had a rash all over her belly and face. It's subsided now. Thankfully, the virus isn't anything to be to worried about in the long term. After the fever breaks, the rash is the only remaining symptom which doesn't cause her any discomfort or anything. Nonetheless, it was heartbreaking watching her in such misery for 4 days! Thankfully she's back to herself, teething and all!

Here are some videos of Natalie playing after recovering from her virus. She now loves crawling up onto her chair -- no matter how many times I try to explain that standing on it is not a good idea!

Natalie has been doing great lately walking while holding only one hand. She stands on her own for long periods of time and even bends down to pick something up and stands back up without holding on to anything but she still hasn't taken that first big step. She's starts to (moves one foot) but then topples or puts it back down. She's getting close though!