Herpangina

Yep, that's what Reid has. This lady described it better than I ever could (and yes, I'm too dumb to figure out how to copy and paste into my own blog...so I had to write out the entire thing):

http://www.thehouswifediaries.com/2008/05/herpangina.html

Poor Reid was fussy a couple of days this week, so the sitter and I took it as being teething (think I've blamed just about everything on that in the past few months, hehe, but someday he really WILL get those teeth to come in!). But when he went down for a nap on Wednesday afternoon (no fever) and awoke an hour later with a 101.2 degree fever, I knew something else must be amiss. Sure enough, he woke intermittently (screaming sometimes) all night long despite the Tylenol he'd been given and had a 102 degree fever at 6am. Since then, he's been subjected to elongated q-tips up the nose, in the throat, and a "sharp, knife-like stabbing pain" in his poor little throat. No wonder he doesn't want to eat. So please pray for this yucky virus to pass quickly...