So the week started out fine. We were looking forward to a much quieter week than the last as our gospel meeting was Wednesday-Saturday evening and then a good part of the day on Sunday. We all needed a little rest in our house. Tuesday seemed like a pretty normal day, but it didn't end that way.
I picked Harrison up from his Nin & Pops house at 4:00 because R & I were going to a meeting. His face was red, but they had been playing outside so I just assumed he had gotten warm or gotten a little sun on it. I took Harrison to my sister's house as she was going to watch him until we got back and he could play with his two cousins. They are his favorite.
She called me at 5:45 to say he was running a low grade fever and didn't feel well at all so she was giving him motrin. I felt bad I had left him if he was sick, but we finished our meeting and got back home as soon as we could. At 7, my sis texted to say that his fever was down, he had eaten a bit, and was playing with the kids. I picked him up at 8:45 and we headed home. When we got home, I could tell his fever was coming back up. All he did was lay on me and he didn't want to play with any toys.
I took his temp and it was 101. It hadn't been four hours, but I gave him tylenol since he had motrin last. I checked his temp again in 30 minutes and it was continuing to rise. It appeared that his breathing was really fast and I was getting worried. He was asleep, but I kept pestering him trying to put a cold compress on him and pulling all his cover off and his pajama pants. He kept saying "I sleepin Mama." The next time I checked his fever was 102.5. We decided at 10:30 to wake him up and put him in the bathtub. He just cried and cried.
When we got him out of the tub his temp was 104. R said we are going to the hospital.
We threw on clothes and drove to the ER. His fever was at 101 when we got there and I think they thought we were off our rockers. We waited for over an hour for the doctor to come in. Listen to Harrison's chest, check his ears, and his throat and then say it all looked fine. She thought it was parvo virus just alternate motrin and tylenol and follow up with his primary care doc. Thank you very much. We got home at 1:30am.
At 5am I got up to check on him and his fever was back to 102.9. I said I was taking him to the walk in clinic at his doctor. So we were at the doctors office at 7:00. He wasn't running a fever when we finally saw the doctor. He did say his throat was red and irritated and he wanted to do a strep test. He validated us taking him to the ER as he said he would have done the same if his kid was running a 104 fever. He didn't want to give him any antibiotics as it could still be viral just continue to give him motrin and tylenol alternating every three hours. We had to go to the lab and get the strep test. Harrison didn't understand what they were going to do so it was a struggle to get that done. It took three of us. The tech had never heard a two year old tell her, "No I not going to open my mouth. I not." over and over again.
Once he did it he got cars stickers so we were good to go and he told the tech, "I did good." The results were negative on Wednesday and again on Thursday. I continued with the fever reducer. He slept for over 4 hours when we got home from the doctor on Wednesday morning.
I gave him his last dose of tylenol at 7 last night as it was creeping back up again. He didn't have any fever at 5 or 8:30 this morning. So maybe we are on the road to recovery. I hate it when my boy is sick. He just kept telling me, "I feel bad Mama."
I'm glad Friday is here and we are going to take it easy this weekend.
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