Strep

The bad news is DJ has strep throat. ugh. The good news is we had the opportunity to learn about scarlet fever and it's effect through history. In case you don't know, step used to be called scarlet fever. They are one and the same. It got it's name from the scarlet rash that often accompanies the strep infection. It is the illness that caused Helen Keller to go blind and deaf at the age of one and half. It is also the illness that caused Mary ingels to go blind (not just in the tv show but the actual Mary ingles who is the sister of Laura Ingels Wilder, that wrote the little house book series.)

I will be the first to admit the medical industry, as whole, is beyond annoying and is one of the worst things I have ever experienced in my life. However, I have to say I feel blessed by the thought that the same illness that took the sight of those two girls and the lives of countless others, to my little girl, was a mere annoyance taken care of quickly by ibuprofen and antibiotics. What a time we live in.