Coxsackie Virus (1 Viewer)

Fat Nick said:

El Floppo said:

gl, nick.

yeah- those first years are freaking tough with the kid petrie-dish coming home with every possible ailment. our son came home from Kindergarten one day with Scarlet Fever. like a Dickens' novel. Thanks NYC public schools. two full-time working parents means you can afford to get a sitter at least.

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Scarlet Fever? Jesus.

Re. the sitter - I mentioned to the wife that it might make sense to at least consider finding someone. Our challenge is that we're both transplants with no family, and limited friends in the are where we live. Our closest friends live 20 minutes away, but both work full-time as well (and are expecting their 1st kid any day now).

Our normal "Parent's night out" babysitter works for the daycare full-time as well, so she's unavailable should the kid get sick and not be able to go in to daycare. I think we need to find a babysitting granny or something somewhere.

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My son picked up (and was hospitalized by) RSV during his first stint in daycare and we had the same reaction to pull him out. Not sure what's available specifically in your area, but we used care.com to post a nanny job and got a lot of responses (including the babysitting granny types). We interviewed a few and they were by and large pretty flakey, but if we had stuck with it we probably would have found someone decent in there.

Ultimately we hired nanny referral service who just sent us an awesome nanny for a few months. Their nannies were pre screened and ready to get to work. I'm sure every city has something like this. The only problem is that it was really expensive - the referral service ended up getting 20% on top of what we were paying the nanny directly. It was money well spent in our situation though.

shadyridr said:

Fat Nick said:

On Monday our daycare sent out an infectious disease notice that a kid in my son's room had a confirmed case of Coxsackie. Yesterday he came home with some small bumps, mainly on his arms, and a few bigger bumps on his hands and feet. Nothing too bad, but we took him to the doctor this AM.

Confirmed Coxsackie. Great. He's got to stay out of daycare for 2 days. Wife is with him today, and I'm with him tomorrow. Praying neither of us get it.

In the last month, one of us has had to take off work for random kid problems, including an ear infection, surgery to get tubes put in, follow-up for the tubes, diarrhea, and now Coxsackie. We have 1 kid, and both work. I honestly don't know how people have careers and kids without hiring a full-time stay at home nanny. Neither of us can get through a month without multiple days off. And it's not like you can get much work done at home with him either because when he's sick he's super needy.

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Welcome to the club. Daycare is a complete germ fest. Once my son went to Kindergarten he stopped getting sick. He had perfect attendance Sept, Oct, Nov, & Dec of 2014. We sent him back to his old daycare this summer and he's already been sick twice.

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My wife is so paranoid about him picking up food off the floor, etc. I honestly don't care because no matter what you do, the first thing he does is put whatever he has in his mouth. Go to the aquarium? He sticks his hands in the water, then in his mouth. At the doctor for a check-up? Playing with a xylophone? Ball end of the stick in his mouth. I'm sure you know the drill.

It's reassuring to know that Kindergarten is a better situation. It's scary knowing that we've got at least 3 more years of this (plus however many more kids we end up with).

thecatch said:

Fat Nick said:

El Floppo said:

gl, nick.

yeah- those first years are freaking tough with the kid petrie-dish coming home with every possible ailment. our son came home from Kindergarten one day with Scarlet Fever. like a Dickens' novel. Thanks NYC public schools. two full-time working parents means you can afford to get a sitter at least.

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Scarlet Fever? Jesus.

Re. the sitter - I mentioned to the wife that it might make sense to at least consider finding someone. Our challenge is that we're both transplants with no family, and limited friends in the are where we live. Our closest friends live 20 minutes away, but both work full-time as well (and are expecting their 1st kid any day now).

Our normal "Parent's night out" babysitter works for the daycare full-time as well, so she's unavailable should the kid get sick and not be able to go in to daycare. I think we need to find a babysitting granny or something somewhere.

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My son picked up (and was hospitalized by) RSV during his first stint in daycare and we had the same reaction to pull him out. Not sure what's available specifically in your area, but we used care.com to post a nanny job and got a lot of responses (including the babysitting granny types). We interviewed a few and they were by and large pretty flakey, but if we had stuck with it we probably would have found someone decent in there.

Ultimately we hired nanny referral service who just sent us an awesome nanny for a few months. Their nannies were pre screened and ready to get to work. I'm sure every city has something like this. The only problem is that it was really expensive - the referral service ended up getting 20% on top of what we were paying the nanny directly. It was money well spent in our situation though.

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We didn't pull him out of daycare voluntarily...that's just their policy for sick kids. He'll be going back as soon as he serves his mandatory "48 hours out." I find their policy completely whacky though. If your kid has a cold, gets diarrhea or has something contagious, they basically require 24 hours and a doctor's note. Stuff can be contagious for more than 24 hours! Then, the flip-side, the kid gets an ear infection, and they make him stay out under the same policy, yet ear infections aren't contagious! It's just so random. The wife and I just cringe when daycare calls because it's always something. It's just a double-edged sword b/c you have to come get your kid b/c he's sick, to protect other kids, but your kid is sick BECAUSE OF OTHER KIDS. I get it...but it sucks.

We're not in a big city...we live in western NJ. I feel like we'd basically have a case where demand way overstrips supply on nannies. I'm considering checking with the place we have through work (Bright Horizons) who offer "emergency care," where you can have a nanny pre-screened for these little one-day things here and there. Makes me nervous as ####, but might be the best option.

We have Bright Horizons through my work as well. I never used it though.

prescreened sounds better than nothing. would be nice to have a last minute baby-sitter for these kinds of things.

we keep a rotating case of two or three NYU coeds on speed-dial- they all live walking distance from us and have flexible schedules. also have a couple of friends with kids the same ages- somehow they've used us more than we've used them. I guess it helps that my wife doesn't really work. "helps".

shadyridr said:

We have Bright Horizons through my work as well. I never used it though.

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I've "signed up," for the free service, but never really looked into how to utilize it. Might have to do that.

El Floppo said:

prescreened sounds better than nothing. would be nice to have a last minute baby-sitter for these kinds of things.

we keep a rotating case of two or three NYU coeds on speed-dial- they all live walking distance from us and have flexible schedules. also have a couple of friends with kids the same ages- somehow they've used us more than we've used them. I guess it helps that my wife doesn't really work. "helps".

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Agree - prescreened is better than nothing. At least they have something to lose if they are horrible.

Also - the bolded part would've been the start of a completely different thread 10-15 years ago...but I digress. I have a good friend who lives in Queens who has several options for childcare depending on what she needs. It seems like the city options are a lot broader.

how's Jr doing?

I'll never forget how miserable Floppinho was... poor lil' dummy.

El Floppo said:

how's Jr doing?

I'll never forget how miserable Floppinho was... poor lil' dummy.

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Wifey is home with him today. She said he seems fine. He's been destroying the house and terrorizing the pets, eating everything in sight, and napping on occasion, so very much business-as-usual.

I get to stay home with him tomorrow. With my luck, his fever will spike tonight, and he'll wake up at 4:00 AM screaming like a banshee and have a horrible day. We called him Murphy (as in Murphy's Law) for about the first 6 months of his life because he had the worst possible timing for everything.

We'll see I guess. It's slow at work right now, so honestly, if the little guy is in a good mood again tomorrow, I'll kind of look forward to just chilling with him for a day.

sorry about your kids, I hope they are all healthy happy and successful. But man I love saying Coxsackie.

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Well...Day 2 of the kid home with the Sackie of the Cox.

Very apparent blisters on his feet (mostly heels) and a few on his hands. Doesn't seem to be bothering him at all though. He's taking a nap now, so I'm blowing through some work while I can. Praying I don't get this thing. It'd be my luck to get it from him and have it be way worse.

I caught this from my kid and didn't realize wtf was going on. went to the casino and probably infected everyone at the table

Fat Nick said:

Well...Day 2 of the kid home with the Sackie of the Cox.

Very apparent blisters on his feet (mostly heels) and a few on his hands. Doesn't seem to be bothering him at all though. He's taking a nap now, so I'm blowing through some work while I can. Praying I don't get this thing. It'd be my luck to get it from him and have it be way worse.

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So the August spat was pretty minor.

A few weeks ago, he got it AGAIN...this time with the blisters on his hands and feet again, only worse, and to go with it he got impetigo all around his mouth. Poor little guy looked like a blister factory. Didn't seem to bother him.

Then...on Sunday night, I started feeling sick. Came down with a 103 fever, chills, sweats, sore throat. Felt almost 100% better on Monday AM...then, on Monday PM, I started noticing itchy spots on my hands. Fast forward to today - My hands look like a connect-the-dot book. Blisters everywhere. On my feet and knees too. This crap f-ing hurts. Just feels like I have burns or abrasions over nearly every square inch of my hands and heels. Hurts to really clinch my hands, etc. I'm home from work mainly because I don't want to a) get anyone else sick, and b) I look like one of those posters in the doctor's office and I'd probably scare people.

Adults most definitely get the Sackie...and it's not fun. Fingers crossed I don't get the bumps on my downstairs areas like the kid did...

feel better, Nick- good luck with your #### sacky. that sounds terrible.

Sounds terrible. Good luck not getting blisters on your cox or sacky.

8 month old and 3 year old both have it. Now the 5 year old just came down with a 103 fever. Should be a fun week in the stryker household.

sounds like an answer to a Great Carnac question.  

strykerpks said:

8 month old and 3 year old both have it. Now the 5 year old just came down with a 103 fever. Should be a fun week in the stryker household.

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Ugh... Sorry, man. 

They just call it hand foot n mouth vrius here....my kids have both had it...never really saw it on their feet or hands...bur their throat was pure nasty looking

How has it taken this long?

strykerpks said:

8 month old and 3 year old both have it. Now the 5 year old just came down with a 103 fever. Should be a fun week in the stryker household.

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Put on a tyvek bio-suit.  You don't want that ####

Fat Nick said:

Put on a tyvek bio-suit.  You don't want that ####

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Well, we'll see what the next few days bring. 8mo and 3yo seem to have gotten through it without much issue. 5yo on the other hand had the sores essentially all over his body. Poor guy couldn't straighten his arms or legs because they were so bad around his elbows and knees.

Then yesterday I came down with a fever and a bit of a sore throat. I feel a better now but I'm hoping for the best.

strykerpks said:

Well, we'll see what the next few days bring. 8mo and 3yo seem to have gotten through it without much issue. 5yo on the other hand had the sores essentially all over his body. Poor guy couldn't straighten his arms or legs because they were so bad around his elbows and knees.

Then yesterday I came down with a fever and a bit of a sore throat. I feel a better now but I'm hoping for the best.

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You poor dumb *******

strykerpks said:

Well, we'll see what the next few days bring. 8mo and 3yo seem to have gotten through it without much issue. 5yo on the other hand had the sores essentially all over his body. Poor guy couldn't straighten his arms or legs because they were so bad around his elbows and knees.

Then yesterday I came down with a fever and a bit of a sore throat. I feel a better now but I'm hoping for the best.

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Damn gl

strykerpks said:

Well, we'll see what the next few days bring. 8mo and 3yo seem to have gotten through it without much issue. 5yo on the other hand had the sores essentially all over his body. Poor guy couldn't straighten his arms or legs because they were so bad around his elbows and knees.

Then yesterday I came down with a fever and a bit of a sore throat. I feel a better now but I'm hoping for the best.

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I'm convinced it's worse the older you are.  When my then-2-y/o got it, he had a fever and a few spots on his hands and heels.  The only reason he missed school was b/c of the contagiousness.  He was fine.  I got it from him and missed 2-3 days of work because my hands and feet looked like that of a leper - I worked with two women with small children, and I couldn't come in for fear they'd kill me if I spread it.

Good luck.

My little girl came down with a really bad case of it about two weeks before her first birthday. Hands were bad, feet were okay, but her face was the most affected. She was still somewhat scabbed up on her bday but it thankfully wasn't bothering her much at that point. No clue how my wife and I dodged it.

My 1 year-old's got it bad right now.  Started showing up last week and we took her to the doc.  Doc said "I'm positive that's not Coxsackie.  It looks like mosquito bites."  Well...she DID get some mosquito bites on a walk last week, but clearly NOW it's full-blown Coxsackie.  Poor thing has blisters all over her hands and feet.  Way worse than my son ever got it.  I'm currently getting over Pink Eye, working on our Operating Plan, and watching Claire now.  My only goal is to not get it from her...