2. Water - with very thick skin covering
3. Blood
4. Spot turns bright red - hot to touch and hurts to touch - it is flat
5. Spot raised slightly with pimple like nodules inside the spot
6. Raised a lot - but soft to touch - spot is redder
7. Raised a lot - very hard to touch - spot is redder
8. Deformed raised area - maybe 4 or more inches larger than the spot - with the spot on top of the raised area. ---- hope you understand. When she has lots of deforming spots on her legs and feet - it looks kinda like elephantitis
9. Bottom of feet spots ---- redder and hot - very seldom raises up - but can if the deforming kind
10. Bottom of feet - turn purplish - think also hot to touch I know there is one more blister that we have seen. Spots can turn white when flushing- this I know I never counted - sometimes raised - sometimes not raised. Also when flushing spots can turn purple with white ring around them - same as the above about the raised.
A pox would break out - then an urticaria water blister on top of it. They broke out like this over eight times. (I quite counting at the eighth break out. She was out of school for six months. The doctors were afraid that the pox would move into her eyes and take her sight - they were every place else. I never want to experience anything like this again.
I ended up breaking out with her with little red spots! (Later learned that these were from high blood pressure.) When the ambulance came to get me (because the blood pressure went sky high) they tried to take Jackie. Not wanting to upset the girls, we had not told them Dad called the ambulance.
For a long time we took our children everywhere with us, choosing not to use our parents as babysitters or babysitters. Once in a great while my parents took care of the girls. Our friends, when Jackie was several months old began asking if they could take care of the children while we went out to eat or to a movie. We always declined until ----- Jackie was around a year old. We had a neighbor (across the street) that asked many times if she could watch the children. She had been around Jackie many times and knew about the blistering and flushing. Where Jennifer was this day, I do not remember - she could have been with us Anyway, we finally let this woman babysit. I believe it was afternoon or early evening. (Evidentually I have blocked out some of this. I tend to block out really bad events in my life.) When we came home, we went to pick up Jackie. The lady informed us that she was not there! Not here we said - where is she? She told us calmly that she had flushed and that she did not know what to do - so she had taken her home and put her in her crib. We ran home - and she was in bed! Crying hard and in a full body flush. Needless to say, we talked very little to this lady after that - nor for a long time did anyone other than family babysit after that. Most of the time we continued taking our children with us where ever we went. Jackie's Story