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This morning, when I got home from getting my coffee, I stepped out of the Jeep.  When I stood up, I dumped an iced coffee, complete with sticky caramel, down my legs and into my sandals.

I went in the house to clean up and came face to face with Riley.  I decided to change her diaper.  Since I've been slack on the laundry, she'd been in paper diapers for a day, and I thought that an overnight session in a Pamper was long enough.  When I stripped her down, I noticed that the rash that she'd had on her torso since Sunday was still there.  "Huh."  I thought to myself.  "I wonder what it is.  It seems like it might be getting worse."  Mentally, I dismissed chicken pox - no crusty scabs, no pustules, and it looked pretty much the same as three days ago.  I thought "sand fleas?" from the beach, but dismissed that.  She wasn't itching at all.  No out of the ordinary fussiness.  I brought it up to The Hubster, and he thought we should go to the doctor.  I called.  I got the appointment. 

Today was the day that we decided to celebrate Emma's fourth birthday.  We had people coming over to my father in law's house to swim.  The weather forecast called for severe storms, flooding and hail.  We decided to move the party over to our house.  I called everyone, except for those that I forgot, and went out to do errands. 

I went to the cake store and bought the icing mix to make Emma's cake.  It looked like this:

I went to the grocery.  I went to the bank, and I went to the post office to mail my ebay.  Where I discovered that I'm so slick that I'd forgotten half of what I needed to ship.  And had labels for packages that were empty.  The sky looked threatening, and the forecast sounded terrible. I was glad that we decided to change the party location.

I got home in time to finish the cake, eat a quick bite and then I took Riley for her appointment.  The doctor's office had recently moved, and I was certain that I knew where the new place was located.  So certain that I didn't take directions.  I KNEW where I was going.

Except I didn't, and in a stunning display of my intelligence, I got lost on the way to the doctor that I've been using for 14 years.  They moved one mile down the street. 

Her rash, which looks like this:

was diagnosed as....  Well, wait.  I want to see what YOU think.  Weigh in with your thoughts.

When we took off her clothes, the doctor expressed surprise in seeing a paper diaper on one of my kids.  I muttered about it, and then my mouth dropped in shock to see the welt on her leg from the elastic of the diaper.  Where apparently she'd had an allergic reaction and it looked more like a gash.

So, to recap, by 3:00 I had:

dumped my coffee, forgotten to call people about the new location of the party, screwed up my posting of packages, misplaced two things I had already SOLD, gotten lost on my way to the doctor and then discovered my kid had a welt on her leg and I didn't know.

After that, fate smiled on me. We had Emma's party, and it went well.  Even though it didn't rain a damned drop. 

Comments

[margalit]

It looks to me like chicken pox before they've had time to get pussy. Or maybe something horrible like bedbug bites. I dunno, but it looks horribly itchy to me.

[KatieButler]

What a day!
Poor girl! I have no idea what the rash is, but I hope it resolves itself soon.

[asglad]

Cute Cake!

[chris]

I know what the rash is! I know! But that would be cheating, huh? And is it wrong that margalit's comment above made me giggle like a school girl.

I am impressed with your mad cake decorating skillz. happy birthday to emma.

[Faith]

Looks a bit like my belly when I had measles, but since you're not freaking a lot and you had your party, I'm figuring that's not it...

But it also looks like the rash my oldest got after she had the chicken pox vaccine - no itch, little bumps... so my vote is a mild chicken pox case! If my twins weren't so young (well, and you know, if you lived next door) I'd come visit.

Great cake, too. I'm all about Hello Kitty - for myself. Forget the kids.

[Katie Ricks]

I want to know!!! My daughter had that same mysterious rash about 4 weeks ago...I never took her to the dr and it cleared itself up in about a week or so. I thought maybe chickenpox also, but it never spread. Wait...that sounded bad...never took her to the dr. I thought it was either chickenpox (she had the vaccine so nothing the dr. could do) or sand flea bites. So I am with you. But I still want to know!

[Annika]

Sam outgrew the newborn fitted diapers and we only have a handful of smalls. Three dozen prefolds go much faster than I'd ever imagined. Living in an apartment means needing quarters for laundry. My point? Poor thing was in paper for three days. (We've been doing paper for overnight with no ill effect, but I feel super guilty using them all day.)

[Shelly]

I bet is chicken pox!

[Mimi]

Wow! What a day.

[kalisah]

I can't believe Emma is FOUR.

[biz]

Happy Fourth to Emma. Sweet cake! ;-)

[alana]

Happy Birthday Emma.

I vote chicken pox.

[wookie]

It looks like either a heat rash or an allergic reaction. But that's just me.

[the womom]

If it's chicken pox, we need some of that over here. ;-)

Happy Birthday to Emma!

[Kira]

I'm thinking allergic reaction too. So what's the verdict?

[Katie Ricks]

Well?

[rachel]

love the cake! I'm hiding the picture from my HelloKitty obsessed child.

I'd vote latex allergy from the paper diapers. They look like hives. Or bug bites If they were CP or impetigo or anything you'd have had to cancel the party.

[Nancy P.]

This post is SO funny. It sounds like one of my days and I'm pregnant--can't remember anything right now--and have 5 kids. They don't slow me down, though. We go, go, go a lot. No sitting around the house for me! I hope you don't feel alone. Just wanted to let you know you're not!