once again, it appears that our house has contracted some kind of disease. this all started two weeks ago, at the end of G'ma J from NJ's visit. Caleb developed a fever, 102 fever and it freaked me out a little bit. i'm just not used to my kids being sick like that. for them, a high fever is 101 and that is pretty rare. there didn't seem to be other symptoms and the fever wouldn't go down even with tylenol. and of course, this all happened after the dr's office closed. we made some calls later that night and the nurse recommended we get him seen on Sat. so we did. the verdict was a cold and we started seeing the coughing and runny nose hit.
a few days later, Sadie started with the fever and the coughing. her coughing was so bad one night that we didn't get any sleep. i thought i would call the dr's and ask if she was old enough for a little bit of cough medicine. they told me to bring her in. so back to the dr's we went and again they said it's just a cold. (that was last thursday)
Caleb's cold seemed to be getting better. we didn't really have any fever and he was sleeping through the night. then yesterday...
we were playing outside in the sun and i happened to notice that Caleb was shivering. it was almost lunch time so i brought him in and checked his temp. 102. i couldn't believe it. so i gave him some motrin and put them both down for a nap. at 1:30 he woke up fussy, and i discovered that he had gotten sick in his bed. his eyes were open but he was limp and not really responding to me. this scared me. i checked his temp and he was up to 103 (this was just an hour or so after getting the dose of medicine). i was scared. i called andy and then called the dr's. they wanted to see him but couldn't get to him until 3. so we sat and watched Cars- him simultaneously shivering and burning up to the touch. we got to the dr's and the poor thing fell asleep on the floor of the waiting area while waiting to be called back. then when we were shown into a room, he fell asleep again waiting for the dr to come in. i think after the 2 little naps the fever medicine started to kick in and actually bring down the fever a bit.
he perked up a little for the doctor and once again, we were told it was a cold.
last night we brought him home and he slept for a good 3 hours. he was very pleasant when he got up but soon the fever was back. it was a long night with not a lot of sleeping. andy and i took turns sitting with him but he didn't really sleep much. then this morning the fever was up again, this time to 104. fortunately, we were already scheduled to be at the dr's for Sadie's 18 mos checkup. so Caleb got checked out as well. part of me wonders if there's some kind of spell or something on the dr's office, that as soon as a sick child steps into the waiting area, their symptoms begin to fade and are almost completely gone by the time they are actually seen by the dr. then of course, the parent is left looking like a paranoid hypochondriac. that is what i felt a little like today. i was actually happy when they took his temp and saw it was 103 (yesterday the highest they got was 99).
well, as both kids were checked, we learned that Sadie actually has another nasty ear infection and over night Caleb seems to have developed one as well. they still feel that the fever was caused by the cold.
so we're home now and with new medicine. Caleb was much more cheerful this afternoon and has taken a really good nap.
we have follow-up appts in 3 weeks- hopefully we won't have to be back before then.
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