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I am become dr. mom
Feb. 23rd, 2010 02:35 pmThe Dillo is sick - his night-waking cough of Friday and Saturday nights turned to high fever on Sunday evening, and today's the second day in a row I've been home with him.
We took his temperature Sunday night - just guesstimating really, since we do it in the armpit, and he was 102.5. I didn't really need to take his temp - I have the gradations of little kid fever down by feel now, from Feeling A Little Warm to Definitely Not Going to School to Burning Up. Dillo has an irrational hatred of children's Motrin for some reason and we have to give it to him by syringe and it takes 2 people, so we've only dosed him twice, once Sunday night and last night at midnight. I can tell when he's passed the point of Sick But Hanging In There to Needs Medicine by his manner. I can tell whether or not he'll be up for school the next day by 2pm today (yesterday - no way; today - pretty sure he's going in.) Fear me, I am the mommy.
I'm also really tired, as I've slept with him most of the last 4 nights and even when he's asleep he coughs a lot. But he's been pretty angelic - only cranky when really feeling crappy and needing medicine, but usually wide-eyed and charming and pretending to be a baby and the "demanding" is demanding to be snuggled, which is hard to feel annoyed by even when the demandee is watching Barney. I'm glad he's on the mend, though, as I am tired and bored of children's TV and have finished the Julia Child autobiography I was reading.
We took his temperature Sunday night - just guesstimating really, since we do it in the armpit, and he was 102.5. I didn't really need to take his temp - I have the gradations of little kid fever down by feel now, from Feeling A Little Warm to Definitely Not Going to School to Burning Up. Dillo has an irrational hatred of children's Motrin for some reason and we have to give it to him by syringe and it takes 2 people, so we've only dosed him twice, once Sunday night and last night at midnight. I can tell when he's passed the point of Sick But Hanging In There to Needs Medicine by his manner. I can tell whether or not he'll be up for school the next day by 2pm today (yesterday - no way; today - pretty sure he's going in.) Fear me, I am the mommy.
I'm also really tired, as I've slept with him most of the last 4 nights and even when he's asleep he coughs a lot. But he's been pretty angelic - only cranky when really feeling crappy and needing medicine, but usually wide-eyed and charming and pretending to be a baby and the "demanding" is demanding to be snuggled, which is hard to feel annoyed by even when the demandee is watching Barney. I'm glad he's on the mend, though, as I am tired and bored of children's TV and have finished the Julia Child autobiography I was reading.