On Tuesday afternoon I got a call from daycare letting me know that Bryce had a “temperature”. (Just FYI…the word is FEVER. I would certainly hope he had a temperature. Grrr that drives me nuts when people say that.) Anyway – by the time we got done with dinner and took his temperature, it was 103.5. He had his bath and a shot of Motrin and went to bed. He woke up later as I was getting ready to go to bed and I ended up staying up with him for a while because he just wanted to be held. Poor little guy.
I stayed home with him yesterday. We were supposed to go to the ENT to discuss adenoid removal, but since his fever was so high I rescheduled that appointment so we wouldn’t be spreading sickies around that office. I took him to his pediatrician instead. After having his throat swabbed to rule out strep, and a catheter jammed up him (OUCH!) to rule out a UTI, he was diagnosed with a “virus” and we were sent home to wait it out. His fever was up and down most of the day yesterday and I thought it was a good sign that he went to bed fever free last night. Nope. Not so much. He woke up again around midnight and he was burning up. Last night, unfortunately, he would NOT let me put him down, so I ended up putting him in bed with us because I couldn’t keep my eyes open any longer.
He woke up hot as hell again this morning. I didn’t even take his temperature right away and just gave him some Tylenol. I took it about two hours later and it was 101.4. My mom came up last night and is home with him today.
At this point, I’m pretty much expecting the Roseola rash to appear. My kids don’t normally get high fevers like this. Rylie only had a high fever like that twice – once when she had a reaction to the MMR vaccination, and the other time when she had Roseola. It could be many different viruses, so we’ll see. I just want him to feel better. You can tell by the look in his eyes how miserable he is. My poor little buddy.
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Poor little guy. Hope he is feeling much better now.
I hope he feels better soon. I hate it when my kids are sick. I loath this time of year because of the sickness. My family likes the stomach flu and really hope that we have all built an immune system to it. I have so many people walking in out of my basement that I know germs come flyin in. I spray the heck out of everything with santizer at nap time and at the end of the day. hopefully since they never see my upstairs we can steer away from it. Uggg!!!
Aww I'm sorry to hear he's sick. My daughter had a similar virus last week & now my son seems to have caught it. I'm just hoping my littlest doesn't get it!
When my daughter was little (even now at 26) she never got low grade fevers. She always spiked. Once, when she was 3 or 4 she had what was possibly a bladder infection (they never could tell exactly)& her temp was 107!! How she didn't sieze was a miracle.
I remember that face, those eyes... that look when they don't feel good. All they want to do is lay their head on mama's shoulder. Poor little guy....
Hope he's feeling better soon.
Blessings,
Martha
I hate hearing that little ones are sick...but it seems to be the norm lately :( I guess it is the change of seasons. Hopefully, he starts to feel better soon :)
Awww that poor baby!!! I hope he's feeling better soon! Mine just got over Pneumonia but he didn't have any kind of high fever like that!
Temperature/fever, that cracked me up. I'm so sorry your boy is sick. My daughter had the same reaction to the MMR, crazy fever. Hope Bryce is better soon! xo
Awww, poor Bryce - although I'm so late to this post he's probably better by now! (actually now that I think about it, I'm pretty sure I saw pics of the Rosella and the fact that he had recovered...) That fever vs temperature is one of Mommy's pet peeves, too.
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