The past 2 days have been draining, to say the least. My 2yr old woke up yesterday morning (after having a perfectly delightful Tuesday) throwing up with a 102 degree fever. We (meaning I) battled that fever all day. As soon as either the Tylenol or Motrin would wear out, his fever would come roaring back. At one point it was 103.5! He went to bed at 8 last night, but it wasn't until after 10 when my husband went to bed with him that he finally really settled down and fell into a deep sleep. I had to give him medicine once more during the night and after that I didn't hear a peep from him, although I strangely enough woke up in 50 minute intervals all night long to feel his head and stand over him like a thermometer-welding monster.
This morning it was only 100 degrees when the medicine ran out, but since I had a doctors appointment for him, I didn't want it to come back while we were in the waiting room, I went ahead and gave him some more medicine. Verdict : the flu. Or some other flu-like virus, so I'm just sticking with the flu. Ears and throat looked good, although she could hear some mucous in his chest. Not much we can do about a viral infection (which is what she's assuming it is, based on how quickly it came about and how high the fever got. I'm guessing bacterial infections tend to linger before turning serious?) but let it run it's course. If he still feels the same by Monday, we go back. MONDAY?! I will seriously flip if my poor sweet boy feels this badly 4 days from now. Luckily she said by tomorrow we should see a bit of improvement, at least on the fever.
His Motrin ran out at 4 and the highest it got before bed was around 99 something. So, I'm hoping at least that part of the sickness is behind us. I had planned on giving him some more medicine before he fell asleep, just so I wouldn't be anal and feel his forehead every 30 minutes but about the time I approached him with it, he started coughing so hard that he threw up a TON of mucous and snot. It probably helped in the long run, since all the gunk isn't in his throat now. Funnily enough, he threw up in DH's hands! It must have been his super daddy powers or something, because suddenly he was there with two handfuls of vomit. I decided after that that we could handle a 99-100 degree fever for a while and just go to sleep. He's currently been sleeping for about an hour and we've twice had to go in there to cover him back up or pat his back to let him know we are here. It's going to be a looooong night.
Fingers and toes crossed we have at least a semi-restful night and a baby boy who feels better in the morning.
ETA: Fever has reached 102.3 as of about 30 minutes ago. He's now got some medicine in him and daddy cuddling with him. Hopefully he'll go back to sleep soon. :(
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