Scarlet fever

Imagine my surprise to hear the doctor say Shelby had scarlet fever. It sounded so bad because of what I may have read in text book accounts of a time when people died from such things. But as it turns out, it's "just" strep thought with a bad rash. She didn't have the full-blown rash yesterday, but rather a couple splotches on her arm that I thought was her eczema flaring up. Man was I wrong, as this morning she was completely broken out, pretty much head to toe.