Because I Love You: Hand, Foot, and Mouth.... Ewww

So a friend of mine had posted on Facebook that her daughter had contacted Hand, Foot, and Mouth Disease. Ew, I thought. Glad we haven't been around her in a few weeks. A couple of days later we went to a play date at my friend Kerry's house. We went out back and Kerry mentioned that they had some fire ant hills out there and to be careful. As everyone knows I am a FREAK about red ants so I was watching every step Emmery and Marc took. I didn't ever see anything that worried me so we had fun at our play date and then got into the car to go home. After I strapped both kids in, Emmery said, "mommy ants are biting me!" I said, "where?" and she said "all over my hand!" I thought, if she were really getting bitten all over her hand she would be screaming bloody murder. So I dismissed it and she didn't bring it up again. During this same week she had been complaining that her mouth hurt. Every time I looked inside I saw nothing so I didn't really know why she was complaining. The next day I noticed what looked like red ant bites all over her hand! And I thought, oh my gosh she was telling me the truth, she WAS getting bit by red ants! I felt so horrible, worst mommy ever! But then Friday morning she woke up with similar spots on her feet. I finally put the three together... she has Hand, Foot, and Mouth Disease.... EWWWW! I asked Mikey to google it and we found that the spots on her hands looked exactly like the pictures online. I called the doctor and they said there's really nothing they can do, just let it run it's course and keep her away from other kids. I immediately got on the phone and called my friends to tell them to watch for symptoms since it is very contagious. Turns out it was going around the community. I'm pretty sure she got it from the daycare at Lifetime. She had a really bad case compared to some others, she didn't want to eat or drink anything and was pretty whiney for a few days. So we just laid low and hung around the house until she felt better.