Second son's medical examination / 次男を連れて小児科へ（My Actifit Report Card: August 6 2024）

（日本語は後半にあります）

【English】

Yesterday I reached 6,000 steps for the first time in a long time, due to my second son's hospital visit and an evening walk. However, I was not able to take good photos to post, so I will post photos from my recent trip to Yamanashi.

Around the day before yesterday, a red rash started to appear on my second son's back. It was different from a sweat rash, and I had never seen anything like it. He says it doesn't hurt or itch, and he is fine without a fever. However, he attends a day-care center, so I needed to make sure he did not have a contagious disease. We had no choice but to give him a day off from daycare and take him to the pediatrician.

Under the blazing sun, I rode my bicycle to the hospital in front of the station. By the way, my second son is very large, so when I put him on the back seat of the bicycle, the rear wheel dents.

Since it was a weekday, the hospital was empty, and I had completed the medical interview online before going there, so the examination went smoothly. However, when the doctor examined my son, he could not find the cause of the rash. According to the doctor, the rash appeared only under the clothes, so it was not ticks, insect bites, etc. He said thar the symptoms were mild for chickenpox, and if it doesn't hurt or itch, it doesn't seem like impetigo contagiosa...

Finally, I was told to apply the medicine and see how it progresses. If it is chickenpox, it should spread more, so if the rash does not increase tomorrow, it is probably not chickenpox. It was an uneasy medical examination without knowing the cause of the disease, but my son is fine, so it is a good thing. He has received two doses of the chickenpox vaccine, so there is a possibility that it is only a mild case. So, he will be off from the day-care center and swimming tomorrow.

In the evening, I walked to a convenience store with a recycling bin to dispose of empty plastic bottles. Recently, I have been diligently brewing tea and green tea in the refrigerator, and our consumption of bottled beverages has decreased considerably. But since it is difficult to reduce the consumption to zero, I regularly visit the recycle bin. In total, I walked 6,000 steps, which is an okay number of steps for me these days.

Pictures are of the road leading to Fugaku Wind Cave (I wrote about it the day before yesterday). It was still mid-morning when we visited there, and it was not so hot outside the wind cave. I would love to walk along such a pleasant path again... It is too hot for walking in Tokyo now.

When I finished writing this text and tried to post it from the Actifit app, I tried to sync it with my phone's step count as usual, but could not😂 I am attaching an image of my iPhone step count instead!

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【Japanese】

昨日は次男の通院と夜のウォーキングで、久しぶりに6,000歩に到達しました。が、投稿によい写真を撮ることができなかったので、先日山梨に行った際の写真を投稿します。

一昨日あたりから、次男の背中に赤い発疹ができ始めました。汗疹（あせも）とも違う感じで、見たことのない症状。本人は痛くも痒くもないといい、熱もなく元気・・・。でも次男は保育園に通っているので、伝染する病気だったら困ります。やむを得ず保育園はお休みさせて、小児科に連れていくことにしました。

炎天下、自転車をこいで駅前の病院へ。ちなみに次男は身体がとても大きいので、自転車の後部座席に乗せると後輪がへこみます。

平日ということもあり院内は空いていて、問診もオンラインで済ませてから行ったので、診察はスムーズでした。ただ医師に診てもらっても、発疹の原因は分からず。先生曰く、発疹は服の下だけに現れているのでダニや虫刺され等ではない。水疱瘡にしてはおとなしい。痛くも痒くもないのであれば、とびひとも思えない…

最終的には、水疱瘡であればもっと広がるはずなので、薬を塗って様子見、明日発疹が増えていなければ水疱瘡ではないだろう、ということになりました。原因が分からないままですっきりしない診察でしたが、本人は平気なので、まあいいか…。水疱瘡のワクチンを2回接種しているため、軽症で済んでいる可能性もあるとのことでした。というわけで明日は保育園も、スイミングもお休みです。

夜は空のペットボトルを棄てに、リサイクルボックスが設置されたコンビニまで歩きました。最近はせっせと紅茶や緑茶の水出しをしており、ペットボトル飲料の消費量はだいぶ減りました。でもなかなかゼロにはできないため、定期的にリサイクルボックスに通っています。トータルで6,000歩、最近の私にしてはまあまあの歩数となりました。

写真は富岳風穴（一昨日投稿した）へと続く道です。ここを訪れたのはまだ午前中で、風穴の外もそれほど暑くはありませんでした。こういう気持ちのいい道を歩きたいです・・・今の東京は暑すぎて、ウォーキングには不向きです。

最後に。この記事を書きあげてActifitアプリから投稿しようとしたのですが、どういうわけか歩数が同期できませんでした。代わりにiPhoneの歩数カウントを貼り付けておきます。。😂

This report was published via Actifit app (Android | iOS). Check out the original version here on actifit.io

Walking, Daily Activity, Cycling