Stressed Out

Two weeks ago Ashton stayed home from school one day because he was sick, I didn't think much of it, kids get sick all the time.  Well then last week he was sick again and this time he had a fever, rash  and red checks.  After a couple of days he wasn't getting any better and Jake and I decided that one of us needed to take him in to the urgent care to see if there was something that could be treated.  I was tired, really tired, and I didn't want to have to be the one to go, but then at the last minute I decided that I needed to be the one to take him (mostly because I had been the one home with him for the last few days) so off we traipsed to the urgent care.  Luckily for us they were not very busy when we got there and we were taken right back.  We were seen by a PA and he walked in the room, took one look at Ashton's red cheeks and said "you have fifth's disease".  He did spend some more time more carefully checking Ashton, but stuck with his original diagnosis of fifth's disease.  Something that I had never heard of before.  He talked to us for a while and told us more about it and what to expect, namely that the rash and red checks can come back off and on for up to the next three weeks.  And then almost as an after thought as he was gathering up his stuff to leave, he said pretty casually, " oh, and you should probably keep him away from pregnant women for the next little while just to be on the safe side."  Um, excuse me what?  I am 14 weeks pregnant I explain and he turns and looks at me with this look of total astonishment on his face, "really?" he asks.  Yes, really truly.  So now what do we do.  I have already been exposed to Ashton when he was contagious because he was contagious clear back the first time that he was sick.  He had no idea so he goes out and pages the OB doctor on call.  She says that the first thing we need to do is have my blood tested to see if I have parvovirus B19 antibodies.  That is what this thing Ashton has is really called.  So the PA writes orders for me to have my blood drawn and I am the one getting poked and prodded even though Ashton is the one that is sick.  Then I had to wait ALL weekend for the results.  I am not a patience person that was hard.  I tried not to think about it, but really how could I not?  I got my results back this morning and I have the antibodies in my blood.  I don't know exactly what it means for the baby.  From what little info I got that night in the urgent care, these antibodies can do the same things that the anti M ones can, if they get high enough.  Basically the short answer is that they cause anemia in the baby, which can lead to so many things.  Everything from having a miscarriage/stillborn baby to needing intrauterine blood transfusions for the baby to having a baby born with hydrops, to nothing.  I am so stressed out it isn't even funny.