Hand, Foot, and Mouth Disease: Not Fun!

 I thought there might be some Mommies out there who have never seen the hand, foot, and mouth virus and would want to know how it goes.  There are two distinct types:  The spots on the body and the sores in the mouth.  I've had two different children get this illness and react in those two completely different ways but the fever/ fussiness pattern remained the same:  my toddler was fussy and didn't want to eat the first day, had a high fever days 2-4, seemed a little better day 5, was a miserable, fussy baby day 6, popped out with a several tiny spots on her hands and feet or in her mouth on day 7, and had the full blown spots climbing up her arms and ankles or screamed in pain at the open wounds in her mouth on day 8. She kept a low-grade fever days 5-10 and was pretty miserable and fussy. The spots are definitely painful.  But both times they got better right around day 10 or 11.