For the past day and a half, my son, Tommy hasn't been feeling well. Monday night we drove to Windsor to watch some of the Monday Night game with Melissa's step-mom, Lisa. Tommy was happy as a clam to play with James, who is Lisa's fiance's grandson. They are around the same age and always have a good time together. After we left and went home, we were just about ready to put him down to bed, when Tommy threw up all over the garage floor. We took him down to his room and quickly changed him and he threw up again! Then we started noticing a fever come on. We gave him some tylenol and he wanted to go to bed, so we laid him down around 2:30 after his vomiting calmed down, though he still had a fever of 100.5.
About 4:45, Melissa woke up to him whining, "Help." We rushed into his room to find that he threw up again, and he had a fever up to 103.6. We decided that we should take him to the emergency room. They gave him some stuff for the nausea in a dissolving pill. It worked pretty quick! As soon as the nausea was gone he seemed very happy, and by that time, the second does of tylenol we gave him brought the fever down to 100, so we got to leave the ER right around 6:45.
Tommy then fell asleep in the car and didn't wake up until we got home after going to Walgreen's to fill the prescription the doctor gave us for his nausea. He woke up when we got home and didn't want to go to bed because it was quarter to eight and it was light out. So he played in the living room with his Fisher Price castle and Playskool zoo train. He still wasn't feeling 100% and couldn't shake the fever. But we were all tired and he asked to go to bed around 11:00 in the morning.
Melissa then didn't wake me up until about 7:40 in the evening. As I was getting ready for work, she informed me of how he was through the rest of the day, he still couldn't break the fever. Around 9:00 I was beginning to pull my boots on for work when Melissa took Tommy's temperature again. 104.6! I called work and told them that I wouldn't be coming in tonight and explained why. My supervisor told me to take him in to the ER right away. Before taking him in, Melissa and I ran a quick bathtub of cool water. When we put him in, he sat down and it looked like he was starting to feel better. He began splashing the water and he liked the way it cooled him down.
When we took him out of the tub and dried him off, we took his temp and it was down to 102. Again at about 11:30 it was at 101.5. He kept saying that he was thirsty, so Melissa sent me to the store for some pedialyte for him. When I saw they were out of the flavored stuff and they only had regular, I knew he wouldn't drink it, so I got him some gatorade and we watered it down. Another temp check showed him at 99.9 at about 12:45. He didn't want to go to bed however, but he was perfectly happy to sit and watch me play Mario 64. Around 2:30 am he started getting tired, so I gave him one more of the nausea pills and some more tylenol and he quickly laid down for night night. I'm really praying that this is all over and that he'll sleep in really late in the morning and let his body recover, but I'm pretty sure that the fever has broken!
I plan on staying up for the whole night/morning (whatever you want to call this) and maybe even in to the after noon and let Melissa sleep as much as she can. She has been so great through this whole ordeal and taken wonderful care of Tommy. I'm so blessed that I have both of them in my life!
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