SCARLET FEVER!

The day before he turned seven years old... my little man came down with what later turned out to be SCARLET FEVER, something even I as a qualified nurse knew had to be really rare in this day in age... so much so that I just thought he had a mega bad flu!

This is my poor wee man in my bed as his temp was so high I just couldn't bare to leave him in his own room. I had to wake several times through the night to cool sponge him down and give him sips of water... took him about a week to fight off this terrible infection.