Hand Foot and Mouth in 2016

Is a disease my kids have. Yay.

The day before yesterday, I was putting Evelyn’s betaderm on her wrists and when I grabbed her hand to flip her arm over, she shouted in pain. I just thought she was being dramatic but she was very upset and said I squeezed too hard. I just thought I might have and I carried on. That night in the middle of the night, she woke up with sore feet. This has happened before with her legs so I gave her some tylenol and went back to bed.

Earlier that night Miley had a spot on her foot which was red and painful, I just assumed she stepped on something and carried on lol … Great mom eh?

Yesterday after school I took Evelyn’s mitt off and she cried out in pain to watch because her hands had bruises! I was like WHAT ?? Evelyn’s not one to complain about anything at all so when I looked, I noticed reddish patches with some obvious bumps. And honestly they kind of looked like bruises… I took them both up the hospital to have it looked at, kind of figuring it was HFMD.

It is. They don’t have any other symptoms though, I guess because they’re a bit older. Not sure how that all works. Evelyn’s got a lot of pain in her hands and Miley is basically fine.

Kristen <3