Pobracita.
Yesterday we found that that beanie has Roseola. We found out because I had PF google "Torso Toddler Rash" and boom, every symptom from the last 10 days popped up. Heart that google.
She's doing great now that she broke out in the rash, but I've been wanting to scream for about a week "WHAT THE BLOODY HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU, CHILD???" And now I know. She wasn't just cranky and teething and febrile, she was viral and contagious.
It started with a fever on Thursday of last week. The fever went on and off for about 4 days, peaking on Sunday night when her daddy climbed into the tub and we swabbed her down for about 10 minutes with warm water (she was still pissed off and acting like she was freezing.) The fever was pretty high, the highest we measured was 102.3 axillary, whichs is about 102.8-103.3 F and that's about as high as I will go with a fever before acting on it. She'd been getting prudent amounds of infant tylenol and baby ibuprofen, but it wasn't lasting as long as the dose recommendations listed (which is why we were switching off when it got unreasonably uncomfortable looking for her.)
I hate driving all the way out to the pediatrician, and I know PF does too unless it's shots or urgent. Fevers just aren't urgent. If she'd has a seizure, sure. We'd freak out. But for the most part she was just cranky and clingy and sad and hot. And we cuddled her and kissed her and walked with her and held her and tempted her with cold soothing yums and tried to get her to drink loads of fluids. Of course, all SHE wanted was to nurse. And nurse. And I think I may finally have my boobs back now.
And we were unbelievably stressed out by this virus, may she never come down with a pox.
Long, long, long week. Pf and I need a break.
Next week I go to Jamaica for 4 days for work, but no one is going with me. Don't get excited, it's just Kingston. Not even a beach nearby.
But I'll take the next Friday off and hang out with my familia.
posted by A P M @ 3:29 PM
4 Comments:
At 9:34 AM,
Anonymous said…
Huh. I didn't know Jamaica was big enough to allow one to be inland enough to not be near a beach. I thought it was like England -- never more that 100 miles from the water.
Going back to the anorexia thing, one of the leaders of a pro-anorexia group on LJ just committed suicide. She posted while she was doing it. And you click through to her friends' list and there are all these idiots, and I had a new appreciation for your rant. "Pro-ana"? WTF?
Lastly, you should know that I don't take my kids to the doc unless they seem very ill for days and getting worse. And then I call the doc, and only go in if they say I have to. So I fully support any decisions to avoid the doc's office. Ours is close but it's still a giant pain to get there.
At 10:09 PM,
A P M said…
Oh, we are near water, it's a commercial port and a long sandspit. It took 1 hour to drive 12 miles yesterday, so I have no idea what it means when they say "the beach is 2 hours away."
committed suicide, eh??? Send me the link to the comments, that's really disturbing!!! She posted WHILE she was doing it! Mein gott.
How can you even be mad at that? She's doing the world a favor by taking herself out instead of lingering in painful angry no-eat-land.
My lord, I'm horrid. I'm sorry.
Her poor family...what a jerk she was to do that to them all.
At 7:13 AM,
Anonymous said…
This chick links to it and talks about it--
http://mamavision.com/2007/02/17/internet-suicide/
At 6:02 PM,
A P M said…
Well, I read the blog and I read the mamavision rant on it.
I think the girl was suffering and alone and all the things that cause people to suicide.
Not sure why some people do it, god knows I have suicidal people in my life I care deeply and tragically for, but to each their own method of madness.
What a horrible, fading, sad way to go. She should now fade into the grey distant past as fast as possible so that no one tries to emulate her for similar coverage.
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