So Salem is sick :( He started running a high fever early Monday morning. It has gone up and down since then. We took him in to the doc yesterday because he was complaining of an earache and I didn't want to mess with a possible one of those. His ears are perfectly clear! Thought maybe sinus since he was complaining of a headache and the bridge of his nose hurt (although fever not normal with that) but it seems his sinus's are clear as well. No sore throat, no this no that...just an ongoing fever. So the results are a viral infection which must just run it course of 10-14 days! UGH!! He's been out of school since Monday and most likely wont go back at all this week. I'm picking up school work for him today...which he is thrilled about...NOT! With how his temp goes up and down there is no reason for him to sit around and play video games and watch tv all day, he can do schoolwork.
A friend of ours had the same thing and she said it went on and off for 4 weeks for her kid! Ugh, I can't imagine and I sure hope it doesn't last that long here! At our school (and most I'm sure) you have to be fever free for 24 hours, so since he's running a temp now, he can't go back tomorrow. I can be pretty lenient, but when he's got a 103 now, he ain't making it tomorrow. Although I can go check him in a couple hours and he'll be down to 99. And Tylenol will help, but not always.
The doc did give him some tylenol with codeine to help him sleep better, but he woke up at 2am screaming his stomachache hurt. Calmed him down, gave him some crackers and he fell back asleep shortly afterwards. Wish mom and dad would have fallen back asleep so quickly. Salem has woken up the past 3 nights at 2 or 3 am and it's killing our sleep! Was hoping he'd make it thought one night...we can wish! We'll see what tonight brings!
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