The Underlying Complication with Hand-Foot-And-Mouth

Brooke is always sick, technically diagnosed with asthma and a "chronic cough", it seems like she just cant get a break. We have been encouraged by an ENT to get her tonsils and adenoids removed (for a variety of reasons in addition to the possibility they are part of the cause behind her constant cold symptoms) and finally bit the bullet and scheduled the surgery a few weeks ago.

Of course, the surgery is this Thursday. And, of course, she now has a pretty serious and highly contagious virus. We arent sure what is going to happen but assume the surgery will be cancelled.

Today is much worse for Brooke. She is aware that she is covered in "boo-boos", whereas yesterday we kept her so busy she didnt have the time to really notice. Today, because of the amount of them, and the fact that all of these blisters have turned into scabs seemingly overnight, there is no avoiding them.

At least she finally has some on her feet, which makes the virus make a bit more sense. Unfortunately, because she can really see the ones on her feet, these are what most concern her. She wants to put bandaids on all of them. There arent a whole lot, maybe 4-5. I've agreed to put a Tinkerbell bandaid on the biggest one to keep her satisfied ... seems to be working.

So when you see this picture, it seems like its not so bad, right? Well, thats because the feet are not the biggest problem here.

This is what the whole rest of her body looks like. Her legs, her belly, everything!