Another day in sick land

My poor baby. He hasn't been this sick since before he had his ear tube/adenoid surgery in March of last year. His temp has been spiking above 103 every night and was running in the 101.5-102 range most of the day even with being medicated. The strep test was negative, but I called back today and brought him back in to the ped. While he was there his temp was up to 103.4, which is really high for him during the day. She gave me a script for Augmentin even though she's not sure if what he has is viral or bacterial. On Thursday, he was still in a good mood, full of fun despite the fever and the coughing and congestion. Yesterday he had his moments of needing to rest, but even then was still quite cheerful. But by last night he was just out of it. I actually managed to take his temp around 11:00 last night and to get Tylenol into him with his barely waking, he was so out of it. Today, he was just laying in my arms, like having my own personal heating pad. I did break out one of the Leapster games I got him for his birthday as an incentive for being good at the doctor's office, but he barely played with it for about 5-10 minutes when we got home and he actually agreed with no problem to go down for a nap. He's been sleeping for over an hour and 15 minutes now. My child napping, an unheard of occasion, so if I didn't already know how sick he was, I'd know now.

We were supposed to have a mini birthday party for him tomorrow at my parents. My brother, SIL and nephew are coming in for a visit and it was too difficult to work out them being there for his regular party in June, so I was going to get an ice cream cake and some decorations, but I guess that's out now. I'm also supposed to go on a trip to Minneapolis on Tuesday. It's for fun, meeting a good friend, doing some shopping at the Mall of America, just hanging out. I really hope he's on the mend by then. I won't leave him when he's like his, but I really have looked forward to this trip.

I'm just keeping my fx that either the antibiotics kick in soon or else if it's viral, that it burns out on it's own and he's back to his old self soon.