Her new favorite thing to do is point at everything.

Hello Everyone! I am back with another "surviving" episode; this time Roseola! Yippee! Yay! Can you taste the sarcasm yet? This demon of a virus came like a bat out of He** this week, and we still don't have our sweet baby back 100% yet. No one warned me about this one, but I'm here today to share the horror and hopefully, our only encounter with this virus.

My husband and I were excited to have finally booked a hotel to do small staycation in Yokohama for the weekend. We wrote down all of the plans and were fantasizing about what we were going to do since, we had to cancel the last attempt due to her getting sick. We thought we were in the clear because she had went about two solid months without getting sick, but then I was caught off guard with a text message from my husband in the middle of the day while I was at work. It read, "The nursery school told me to come pick up our daughter because she has a fever of 38.2."

"What!? How? She did have a runny nose the past week, but so did all of the other kids at her daycare. She was fine this morning."

That 38.2 fever went up to 38.7 by the time I got home from work, and by the end of the night it was 40. She was still mildly cheerful, at her meal, but then woke up every hour throughout the night.

My husband and I thought her temperature was high, but maybe it was caused by teething. She still had a runny nose, and had developed watery eyes, like literal tears streaming down her face, but no other symptoms.

Her high fever continued the next day, and I basically carried her in the carrier all day. She slept, and slept, and slept. I thought, "Okay, whatever this is isn't so bad. We can deal with this." Well, I was so wrong.

We gave her a fever reducer finally the night to see if it might help her sleep because she was waking every hour again. It did help, but the fever was back with a vengeance in the morning.

By then, she stopped eating unless it was baby food, and it seemed like her throat hurt. She even stopped drinking all of her milk. She stopped walking and would cry if we left her. My husband took her to the doctors, finally, and they tested her for RS, Adeno, and Corona, but all were negative.

Everyday for four days, we hoped her fever would go down, but it did not, and she was getting crankier and crankier. Finally on Friday her fever went down and stayed down, but she still wasn't eating, and a rash broke out all over her torso and face.

Roseola!

By then we had canceled the hotel, and we were all miserable from sleep deprivation, but the storm was over, right? We survived!

No. No, the worst was yet to come.

We were met with the demon version of our child. Physically she was feeling better despite the rash, but she clawed, she cried, she screamed, and she tantrumed, for FOUR hours straight one night. We held her, she screamed, we put her down, she screamed. 

If we smiled at her, she screamed and cried, if we looked at her she scowled and cried. She pointed and grunted, and smiled when we took her to wherever she was pointing, but then suddenly would arch and cry.

What in the living HE*L happened to our daughter? It's like she hates us, and also hates herself because she recognizes how unstable and sensitive she is.

At night, she'd scream as soon as we left her in the room. So, I have slept with her on the floor for three nights because she won't sleep in her crib for longer than 45 minutes at a time.

She won't play with her toys, she won't let me out of her sight. One day I was sitting with her, and my husband decides to go back to work in the room, so he goes and closes the door, and boom, she's crying.

"What!? Is this the new normal?"

Well, I wish I could answer that question. 

Tomorrow is day six. Roseola is also known as Sixth Disease, partly due to the duration. It's currently 4AM, and she has slept soundly...(beside me) all night. I'm crossing my fingers that the devil's spirit has left her today, but I am also gearing up for a day of crying, baby carrying, and just praying to every God in existence for more patience and understanding.

I'll update this post when she's completely healed, if she doesn't kill us first!