Tuesday, January 6

Aeden and I stayed home sick from school today. Aeden had a fever in the morning so we just hung around the house all day and were lazy. About 5 or 6 PM his fever started going up and up though, and it wasn't responding to Tylenol (known as paracetamol in these parts). I called Olympia Pediatrics to check in on how high it could go before I needed to take him in to the hospital and did all the mom-worrying I could do. He was getting even hotter, so I called Nuray to see what she thought about driving us to the hospital, but she came over with some Ibuprofen (Ibufen here) and we gave Aeden a shower to help cool him off. He finally started to cool down after we were wetting his hair and generally making him mad (he just wanted to sleep!). It was like a movie scene, with me yelling into the other room to Brian the temperature in Fahrenheit and him telling Nuray what it was in Celsius. And I just worried that I had been having so much fun with Aeden recently and now he was so sick and scaring me...I'm always one to look at the bright side (or, rather, to think up all the disasterous outcomes that could happen but then somehow believe that they won't).

So I got up every few hours to check on him overnight and laid there worrying in between, and kept his dosages up at maximum for the Tylenol and Ibuprofen. He didn't completely overheat again, but of course we were both completely exhausted the next morning...