The joys of being a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner and the fun little germies that I bring home to my sweet little boy. All week I had patients with a high fever and a upper respiratory infection (cough/runny nose). Guess who my patient was over the weekend? Yep that's right, poor little Jonah.
Started on Saturday with some infrequent coughing, then in the early afternoon he just was acting "off." He wouldn't sleep well and was just kind of whining. I felt him and thought he felt a little warm, not hot. Maybe he had a low grade temp. So out came the thermometer, and his temp was 102!!! Poor guy, I felt horrible that I had no idea. And come to think of it, we took a nap together and he felt warm while we were napping and he got all sweaty mid nap....DUH!!!!
So he got some tylenol and his temp came down to low grade. Then back up again to 101 after four hours, so he got another dose. Then it was bedtime, I gave him a "cover" dose at 10 pm to keep his temp down while he slept. Well that didn't do squat since his temp was 102 at midnight. I sent the hubby out to get some Ibuprofen, even though Jonah is not supposed to have ibuprofen until he is 6 months old. Since that is in two weeks, and I know that no magical fairies come and sprinkle 6 month magic dust on him, I gave it to him. It worked great except he was just crabby from not feeling well. So we "slept" together on the couch with me sitting upright and Jonah sleeping on my chest.
Today went ok, just a low grade temp until this afternoon and it spiked to 102.8. He was MISERABLE. And I would be to with a temp that high. The good news is that tonight so far he is doing well. I am hopeful for a better night than last night.
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