Thursday night, my daughter started running a fever, her very first. I should probably mention that she's nearly two and thus far (aside from coming ten weeks early) has been the picture of health.
So, her dad and I were a little freaked. Her dad called the pedi Friday night when nothing we did seemed to help and the message was that, basically, we were doing all we could, that we'd just need to let the fever run its course, that some OTC meds were fine, but the fever itself wouldn't hurt her, just make her miserable.
And lo, it did. The first OTC med we tried didn't actually work, which ended up being a shock. So we called the pedi again (bless you Dr G for your patience with newish parents :)) And she told us that everything was still in the "no reason for concern yet" zone---which was reassuring, since we both had visions of us rushing her to Children's Hosptial. Last night she was up and down and up again, but her fever finally broke around 2am.
We think she's on the mend. Maybe. We hope. But I haven't felt so helpless since she was a wee thing in the NICU. :-(
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- Krista
- Wife, mom of a preemie, follower of the old ways, lover of anything Irish or Celtic, history buff, trivia nut, Star Trek and Ren Faire geek and costuming fiend. Offer me coffee or chocolate and world peace is assured. Or at least I'll try really hard. :) I also believe in deleting spam. So, to the person or persons who keep leaving me comments in Chinese (along with links to what I can clearly tell are Chinese porn sites) stop it. It's bad karma, to say nothing of being really, really rude.
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