Saturday night we noticed a bit of a rash on Sam's neck. Baby's get rashes, so we didn't worry about it. Through the night during the feedings we noticed that this rash was getting a bit scary. It started breaking out on the neck like a combination of a horrible case of acne or blisters with big pussy looking heads. It was really thick and really gross. Then it started to spread. At first we just assumed it was where the skin was rubbing and getting sweaty and stuff, so we tried cleaning it and putting baby powder on it. As it started to spread, we started to get a bit nervous. We called our elders quorum president who is a physician and he wanted to come and have a look. After looking at it he told us that it isn't something he sees at all, and for sure wasn't an allergic reaction or some normal rash. He mentioned that it looked like a Herpes related something and recommended that we go to primary children's as a precaution just in case it gets worse and he starts breaking into fevers etc. So we did. They checked him in immediately because it did indeed look like Herpes. The test results would take a couple days so until they got the results they would treat him like he had Herpes. Immediately the IV went in pumping a number of antibiotics. The nurses were all very good, and Sam was actually quite the trooper, only crying when he was being poked by all the needles etc.
We had a ton of visitors, and here is Byron and Elizabeth who finally were able to see the little guy. Michelle's family came and stayed with him during the day on Monday and Tuesday while I had to take care of things and work and Michelle had some things to take care of as well.
Being at the hospital was good. I felt that our parenting skills increased quite a bit as we watched the nurses take care of him.
What a sweet little boy we got! Tuesday afternoon we were discharged from the hospital with all the results coming back negative for Herpes. The antibiotics apparently helped, because all the bubbles went away and he looks great. The final analysis says it was possible that he picked up the herpes like growth during birth, or it was just the "world's worst case" of rash as the doctors put it.
Saturday night we noticed a bit of a rash on Sam's neck. Baby's get rashes, so we didn't worry about it. Through the night during the feedings we noticed that this rash was getting a bit scary. It started breaking out on the neck like a combination of a horrible case of acne or blisters with big pussy looking heads. It was really thick and really gross. Then it started to spread. At first we just assumed it was where the skin was rubbing and getting sweaty and stuff, so we tried cleaning it and putting baby powder on it. As it started to spread, we started to get a bit nervous. We called our elders quorum president who is a physician and he wanted to come and have a look. After looking at it he told us that it isn't something he sees at all, and for sure wasn't an allergic reaction or some normal rash. He mentioned that it looked like a Herpes related something and recommended that we go to primary children's as a precaution just in case it gets worse and he starts breaking into fevers etc. So we did. They checked him in immediately because it did indeed look like Herpes. The test results would take a couple days so until they got the results they would treat him like he had Herpes. Immediately the IV went in pumping a number of antibiotics. The nurses were all very good, and Sam was actually quite the trooper, only crying when he was being poked by all the needles etc.
We had a ton of visitors, and here is Byron and Elizabeth who finally were able to see the little guy. Michelle's family came and stayed with him during the day on Monday and Tuesday while I had to take care of things and work and Michelle had some things to take care of as well.
Being at the hospital was good. I felt that our parenting skills increased quite a bit as we watched the nurses take care of him.
What a sweet little boy we got! Tuesday afternoon we were discharged from the hospital with all the results coming back negative for Herpes. The antibiotics apparently helped, because all the bubbles went away and he looks great. The final analysis says it was possible that he picked up the herpes like growth during birth, or it was just the "world's worst case" of rash as the doctors put it.
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