Picture Update, part 1

Well, the exciting news here is that Teancom has non-contagious rubella (German measels)! Well, he doesn't really have it, but his symptoms are dead on what rubella symptoms are. Teancom was vaccinated a week and a half ago. Got the MMR (measels, mumps, rubella) and the chicken pox vaccine. I called the doc's office and they said this could be an allergic reaction, or it could be a mild case of measels or rubella. I'm telling people it's rubella cause that's what it acts like: a low fever (peaked at 101.5 F) followed by a pinkish-reddish, slightly raised rash.

Fortunately, we don't have to quarantine ourselves, since he can't pass it to anyone. For real rubella, you have to keep him away from people for about a week.

Thought I'd send you a picture of what it looks like. This is just his face. He has spots like this all over his body. They're really small dots. They're more pronounced today than yesterday. Yesterday I thought I was imagining them for a while. But no, they're there. There's a whole lot more today, too. ... It's kind of funny to see him. He's not in obvious pain or looking uncomfortable. And you don't really treat rubella (you just vaccinate against it). We didn't even give him tylenol. So it's just kind of funny to see this silly rash.

Anyways. I've also attached a picture of him from Sunday morning, 2 days ago. About an hour after this picture was taken, we started noticing he had a fever. During church I actually took his shirt off and let him go naked for a while, which got a few comments, but no one really cared. Most people just figured he'd spit up all over his shirt and I didn't have a new one. :)

Tamra