Baby E was running a fever when I picked him up from the sitter this evening. I could tell when I walked in the door that he wasn’t feeling well. He was sitting on the couch whining and as I walked closer I saw that his eyes were red rimmed, like he was tired, but he had already napped. He didn’t know what he wanted, either, and was getting frustrated at everything. Whether it was my paranoia, or for real, it felt like he was getting warmer by the minute. The sitter said he was fine before nap, but woke up about a half an hour previously very fussy and starting to run a low grade.

Normally I would have shrugged it off and ushered the kids to the van, but after this past weekend, my heart started racing. Is it happening again? I touched him. Is he warmer? I think so. We took his temperature and it was up to 99.9, which in and of itself is not alarming, but he was acting like he did in Petco on Saturday.

And in my mind, all I could see was him seizing again.

I got out some Tylenol for him and gave him a dose. Then we loaded the kids in the van to head home. I called Tim, nearly in tears. I’m not ready to do this again!

I got the kids home, unloaded, and inside. He felt hot while I carried him inside and I scrounged frantically around the house for a thermometer. (Note to self, buy a new one.) He was screaming and angry, and feeling quite warm. When I got his temp it was 100.5. Even after the medicine, it was going up!

And as I sat there staring at him, watching for anything strange, he turned to me and whined, “I wanna waffle.”

You want a waffle?!?!

“Yes!”

And just like that it cleared up. I felt his skin and he was cool, his eyes pleading for a waffle. And as Tim walked in, (after rushing home for his frantic wife) Baby E was finishing his second waffle. He drank his milk. Crisis averted.

Tim decided to stay home with us to make sure he was there if it happened again, but thankfully Baby E’s temp stayed down and now he is in bed.

Is this what it is going to be like every time he has a fever? Hopefully once he is completely over this bout of illness, he won’t get sick again for awhile and we won’t have to deal with it!