Tuesday morning Jacob woke up and as we were rushing to get to school, yes even in these Covid times Jacob still does a mad rush to be downstairs and ready for school at 9:00, he started complaining of an itchy rash on his big toe. Filled with exasperation I quickly examined his toe, we put on some cream, and got started with school work.
As the day went on the rash started to expand and by evening time he was covered from head to toe. I had given him Benadryl, Advil and put some cream on the rash and he was still itchy so I decided to call the Dr. As I was waiting for the return call from the Dr I realized I was going to have to explain to the Dr that during this time of a pandemic I was literally calling him for a rash that began on my sons toe. Never before had I felt so ridiculous, but Jacob was itchy and I knew it was going to get much worse as the night went on.
When the Dr called back I started off by explaining that Jacob was covered in a rash and then I smirked as I shared that I knew I sounded ridiculous but the rash had started on his big toe. I commented that he shouldn't be TOO surprised as he knows we typically have weird things happening with the Bloom boys, but that the toe rash was a little odd to me and now that he was covered in a rash I figured I should call.
Without missing a beat the Dr shared, " I don't think this is the Covid toe rash" to which I immediately busted out laughing. I mean come on, that's funny !!! Covid toe rash!!! Suddenly the Dr became serious and asked if I had googled toe rash. Didn't he know I was busy homeschooling 3 kids? working? managing life? Did he really think I would google something as bizarre as a toe rash????
Well, after I stopped laughing he explained that there was research to show that there was a certain percentage of Covid cases that started with a toe rash, and that while he did not expect that we were dealing with that he would be monitoring it and look into whether Jacob needed testing or not.
Over the next 2 days the rash remained on Jacob's body. Poor kiddo was super itchy and uncomfortable but thankfully as the rash remained all over his body- and not on his toe- there was little reason to be concerned about him really having Covid.
For me this has now become our Covid story- each time I think of it I can't help but giggle over the interaction with the Dr. Poor guy thought I was some overly worried mom after googling and instead had to wait for me to stop laughing to explain that while the risk was low Covid Toe Rash was real.
Leave it to the Bloom's to have a Covid Toe Rash Risk during the pandemic!
