High Fever

On Monday, I was wrapping things up at work when my assistant principal came to my room to tell me that Caleb's daycare was on the phone. I ran to the office to get the call. Mrs. Natalie told me that Caleb had woken up from his nap saying that he was "not feeling so good." She didn't think much of it, but when he just nibbled at his snack and then his face got red, she took his temperature. He had a fever of 102.8 under his arm. Usually, you add a degree to whatever reading you get under the arm, so he was very definitely sick. I went to pick him up from school immediately and we went straight to the convenient care clinic. We waited for 2 hours to see a doctor. With the outbreak of swine flu this week, the clinic looked like more like a triage unit. There were tons of people there and most of them were wearing masks. The check-in desk was giving masks to anyone who was coughing. Fortunately, Caleb wasn't coughing. I can't imagine trying to get him to wear a mask for 2 hours. Rudy joined us in the waiting room after a while and we took turns holding a very lethargic Caleb. Rudy brought dinner and Caleb's blanket. He wouldn't eat his dinner, but definitely wanted that blanket. When we finally got back to see the doctor, his temp measured 101.8 temporally. They gave him some Motrin and the doctor ordered a strep test and looked him over. The strep test came back negative and there were no other symptoms of flu or anything else, so Caleb got a prescription for amoxicillin and we were told to keep him home for 24 hours. Rudy took the day off on Tuesday because I'm out of sick days. Since he was staying home with Caleb, he also took the night shift with Caleb. We knew he would wake up during the night with fever and he did - at 10:30. Rudy said that he was absolutely burning up and shivering and aching. He gave him tylenol then and again when he woke up at 4:00. After that, the fever broke and he was back to his old self again. They spent the day Tuesday playing and taking it easy. Caleb hasn't had anymore symptoms at all, but he sure did give us a scare on Monday.