It's Back!

Please remember that I don't keep baby books, so I post things just for my recordkeeping purposes of things with the girls! That is what this post is...

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It's been 9 months since Bella has had a flare up with her finger, but it flared up last night! It came up so quickly too - she was fine all day long and when we got home she kept telling Brannon "boo-boo" and holding up her hand. That's when we noticed it!

At least now we know what it is and don't panic as much as we did the first time it happened (December 31, 2005 - she was almost 5 months old). When it first happened we were in the ER New Year's Eve, the pediatrician's office that following Monday and again Wednesday. At the Wednesday visit, the pediatrician sent us to Scottish Rite ER to see a Pediatric Dermatologist because from our Monday visit to our Wednesday visit, the tip of her finger had turned almost black and the blisters were spreading from her finger to other fingers and to the bottom of her hand where your fingers meet (if that makes any sense)!! Turned out the Pediatric Dermatologist wasn't concerned and agreed with our pediatrician that it was Herpes Simplex Virus. They swabbed the finger and ran the test just to be sure and that is exactly what it is! Basically, her finger gets very swollen and she has blisters - it is the same exact thing as getting a fever blister on your lips - it just settled in her finger and it returns to the same finger every time (her right middle finger).

She's being a trooper - she doesn't like to take the medicine, but is...She especially doesn't like me putting ointment on it (Red Marine Algae ointment is awesome for fever blisters)! But with a bit of bribery (usually a lollipop) she gives in! She is wearing a sock over her hand because I don't want her to rub her eyes or other body parts and it spread. And I also don't want her touching every toy and then Brooklyn going behind her and putting them in her mouth (which is where everything goes)! On a little side note: She just brought me one of her baby dolls and told me the baby had a boo-boo like her's and I had to put a sock over the baby's hand!


Here are some pics!

These are from the current "flare up"!

These are from when it first happened in December 2005/January 2006.