Rash Decisions

Dear Sawyer,

One thing that I have learned as a mom is that kids can always come down with the strangest ailments totally out of the blue. Yesterday morning, you had a slight rash around your diaper area, so I put cream on it and it gradually went away. Then around 9pm last night, a rash flared up around your eyes, neck and legs. Your skin was clear one minute and then it wasn't the next. The rash around your eyes seemed to get especially worse especially quickly and you started crying, "My eye burning! Ow ow! My eye burning!" I was so scared and even though it was in the negative degrees last night, I told Daddy we had to take you to the emergency room.

I put a cold washcloth over your eyes to ease the pain and then tucked you into my bed so that I could go call PoiPoi and ask her to come over and stay with GuhGaw and JieJie while Daddy and I took you to the doctor. But while I was on the phone with her, you snuggled into my pillow and immediately fell asleep. Daddy and I looked at you and wondered if we should wake you up. On the one hand, I wanted to take you to the ER because I was really worried that the rash might keep spreading and somehow affect your vision. But on the other hand, you were sound asleep and I didn't want to wake you up and take you out in freezing temperatures if I didn't have to. For several minutes, I seriously didn't know what I should do. Ultimately, Daddy and I decided to let you sleep; if you were able to sleep, then the rash probably wasn't hurting you that much.

We were going to take you to the doctor first thing this morning but then you woke up and the rash was completely gone! There wasn't a trace of any redness on any part of your body and you seemed totally fine. So weird! But so lucky that the freak rash didn't turn out to be anything serious.

Love,
Mom