so it's been a LONG weekend with a sick kiddo. not so much the throw up sick, which poor andrea is dealing with, but fever, chills and cough sick! started on saturday, we skyped andrea, tim, olivia and mason to wish olivia a happy birthday. graham was in his chair eating his dinner, as was mason who was quarantined from olivia. we lost our connection and then i made a comment on how pitiful mason looked. not more than 15 minutes later graham was still in his chair but not eating anything?!
i had made him pasta, and we all know how he LOVES pasta, and nope.....didn't touch ANY of it! very strange. i also had heated up a spinach nugget which he loves and nope....didn't touch it either. hmmmm, something's up. i just felt like something was wrong and grady tried calming me down. then he made the comment "uh, his his leg twitching?" yup, sure was. me "uh, are both his arms shaking?!" yup, sure were! took a closer look and he was shivering all over. :( i took him upstairs to change his diaper and get him into some pj's and took his temperature. 101.2! YIKES! how did that happen?!
side note, he's in a fleece foot sleeper, and still shivering. so i wrap him in a blanket. still shivering. wrap him in another blanket. still shivering!! wrap him in a THIRD blanket. better, but still shivering a little. since he had fallen asleep and was in his crib, i figured i would let him be for 15 minutes or so to see what would happen. i walk back into his room after 10, because i couldn't wait, and he was shivering again!! so i picked him up and put him on me, which i think my body heat coupled with his blankets worked wonders. but...
...since the dude had never had chills before i got a little nervous. called the on-call line and they said because of his weight we could give him children's motrin and to give that to him for the next does to see if that works better than the infant stuff i had given him before. i decided i was going to let the dude sleep with me that night since i wanted to keep a close eye on him. so around 1030 pm for his next dose i took his temp since he felt warm. 103.2!! OMG!!! took the blanket off him, turned our ceiling fan on a little higher and gave him the motrin. 30 minutes later he was better. not great, but at a low grade fever at least.
he tossed and turned throughout the night and at 6 he was up for the morning. since i hadn't gotten any sleep, and grady had slept in the other room, i asked him to take care of graham so i could try to get a couple hours of sleep. throughout the day the dude was still running a low grade fever and then before his motrin dosage it would spike up. no chills today, but i was still nervous that even with the motrin, his fever wasn't going away.
paranoid me, called the on-call again. same nurse, so she knew i was a little concerned. i knew she didn't want to have us go to the hospital, so she asked if i thought he would be okay overnight with the motrin, albuterol and pulmacort treatments we had been giving him. i was pretty sure he would be, i think i just needed reassurance. so she said, keep doing what we're doing, maybe give him a warm bath, and call the doctors office in the morning for an appointment.
hopefully we'll get some sleep tonight!
we'll update everyone tomorrow!!
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