4: children afflicted by hand, foot & mouth disease in my house
0: number of parents afflicted by it
6: number of days we were stuck in the house OVER SPRING BREAK!
50%: percentage of the baby’s skin covered in rash
5: number of lesions the baby had on her tongue
1: number of lesions the boy had on his tongue, but you would have thought his mouth was made of fire the way he wailed! poor dude.
13: number of blisters still on the bottom of my baby’s feet
13: also number of days since this all started
0: number of people we passed it on to, thankyouverymuch
*alternately titled: hand, hand, hand, hand, hand, hand, hand, hand, foot, foot, foot, foot, foot, foot, foot, foot & mouth, mouth mouth, mouth disease