First Fever

My poor baby! Saturday morning she woke up with a bit of a cough. But she was fine and in high spirits. In fact, when I picked her up from school on Friday, she was much more herself than she had been that week. She's eating even better than the day before so I think that may have something to do with it. She didn't seem as tired as she usually was and even had the energy to play with me some when we got home. The rest of the week she would eat and fall asleep when we got home. This time she still had energy to play some. And she smiled and laughed like I had been missing. So I think she was feeling better about the new situation and was I. Much better. Made my tough week a little easier. Whew. There's hope after all.

Anyway, she awoke Saturday morning with a bit of a cough. Immediately I'm thinking, "that damn kid with the cough!" haha... actually I should say, "that damn mom who brought her coughing kid to school!" But that was Tuesday I heard him coughing. Her first day. And she was fine all week so I figured it was all good. I don't know if the kid was coughing all week, though. Anyway it was bound to happen right? So I figured it was no big deal and we just gave her a bit of medicine to help the cough go away.

Around 3am this morning, she started crying. She was fussing before that but when she does that she usually falls back to sleep or is just hungry. This time neither of those were true. I felt her and she was burning up! At first I thought, it's because I covered her up with a lot of blankets. Often when I feel cold, I figure she must be and cover her up too only to find that she wasn't cold because she's sweatin' like crazy when I do that. I guess I get colder easier than she does. So I took the covers off but she wouldn't stop crying. I changed her diaper, still wouldn't stop crying. So I held her for a bit and tried to rock her back to sleep, still crying and I'm noticing she's not cooling down. So I wake Junior up (yes he can sleep through all this) and we take her temp. 101.2. MY POOR LITTLE GIRL!!! No wonder. Even her cries were a little different. Poor thing. She must have been hurting. We gave her more of her medicine, changed her into long sleeve jammies with the footies and were determined to have her sweat it out. I also fed her too. She would sleep maybe 20-30 minutes before waking up and crying again. I'd pat her back to get her back to sleep. We did that maybe 3 or 4 times this morning. But she had been sweating like crazy which was a good sign and she didn't feel as hot as before. We checked her temp again and it was 99.7 so the fever was going down, thank God. Gave her another dose of medicine. By this time Iwas so freakin' tired I only slept maybe 2 straight hours the whole night. So Junior took her to the living room with him while he watched football and she slept on him, still covered. I finally got some rest. Maybe only another 2 hours but I'll take it! We took her temp again after I woke up and she is now 98.7. whew! Thank God! But we both decided that she still needs to rest up and fully recover before she goes back to school. Since Junior happens to be off Monday, he'll stay home with her.

My poor, poor baby. Those cries... they were different cries. She must have really been hurting. She's alseep now. Resting. We're still keeping her covered up for now because we don't want her to catch a chill and then catch another fever. But she seems to be doing much better now. Well, it was bound to happen. She bound to have a fever at some point and probably get sick from school. I just didn't expect it to happen so soon AND I'm hoping it's coincidence it happened this soon and that this won't be a common thing. I really think it was that kid, though. Why did that lady even bring her child to school sick! Well, it happens. I'm just hoping, again, that is won't be common.

So today we didn't go to church because she was sick and is still recovering. Kind of a bummer since I was going to inquire about her getting baptised today! I guess I'll just have to give the church a call sometime this week.