Fever

Daniel had a very high fever, and it was very scary for his Mom & Dad.

He started warming up in the very early hours of Friday morning, and he had a fever of 100 by 9am. We gave him Tylenol and waited, but by noon, his fever was close to 103, so Daddy took him in to see the pediatrician.

Daniel was OK at the Doctor's office until he saw the nurse. She was the same nurse who has given him shots several times before. When he saw her, he had a complete panic attack and started wailing. When we he saw the examination pad (with it's tell-tale roll of paper), he completely freaked out, and howled throughout the visit with the Doctor. The Doctor suspected that he had an infection in his right ear, and she prescribed liquid Amoxycillin, so it was a good thing we took him in when we did.

We gave him his fist dose of Amoxycillin around 5pm, and Mommy kept him close throughout the evening. However, by bed time, his temperature had continued to rise, up to about 104.5. Daddy was worried, and called the on-call nurse at the pediatrics center, but she reassured him that Daniel was going to be all right. Daniel slept in bed with Mommy & Daddy all night, and he was hot as a brick oven (his feet were like little branding irons).

However, by this morning, his fever has started to go down. He is at 100.8 now. Relief!