Sick Day

So yesterday sometime between 3:30 and 5:00 pm Jayden came down with a serious fever - over 102 degrees!  He was burning up when I picked him up.  Not being able to tell what was wrong with him, I fed him applesauce and toast for dinner (which he gobbled up, a good sign).  We skipped the bath and gave him some baby tylenol and sent him to bed.  He was so done he actually fell asleep in my arms after rocking for about a minute, which he hasn't done in forever.  He woke up crying around 2 am, I gave him another dose of medicine because his fever was still 101 degrees and then he tossed and turned for an hour or so.  Then he woke up crying again around 5:30 am.  I brought him to our bed and he passed out until about 8:15 or so.

Enjoying the comforts of Mama and Daddy's bed, all to himself!

When he woke up at he was almost completely normal.  I checked him about 30 minutes after he woke up and his temperature was down to 99.2 degrees or something within the range of normal.  I still kept him home today, thinking he could use a low-key day at home instead of being around a bunch of kids with a bunch of germs and excitement.  He's been in a pretty good mood, which is a good sign too.

Telling me about his choo-choo.

The only problem is that he's been refusing to eat everything.  He barely ate breakfast, he struggled with snack and he flat out refused lunch.  At some point he'll get hungry - maybe dinner, maybe tomorrow, we'll see.

And of course all he wants to do is go outside to play, where, according to my phone, it is now 90 degrees.  Not really the best prescription for recovery, to send a recently feverish toddler into 90 degree and humid weather.  But he's trying - even cleaning off his shoes to go outside.

Yes, he's the kid who cleans off his shoes so that he can go outside.  When we were out there in our bare feet he kept "wipe off" his feet even though I explained they were just going to get dirty again.  Oh well.

I don't mind spending the day at home, but as usual, it will put me behind again tomorrow.  At least he's feeling better and I'm not worrying about whether I'm being irresponsible by not taking him to the doctor!