You give me fever . . .

We haven’t posted anything for a while since the last two weeks have been full, once again, of sickness for our house. First Mom was sick with some kind of flu/achy/headache thing for a few days. I started feeling better on Friday morning (March 31) and was taking care of Eli at home, as usual for Fridays. He woke up from his nap at about 10:30 and was just screaming and screaming. He seemed hot and when I took his temp it was 101. It had been that way two weeks ago for a few days, so I figured it was just a repeat of that virus, or something similar.

After stripping him down into his onsie he fell asleep on my shoulder for about 45 minutes more, but when he woke up that time he started screaming again and seemed even hotter. I took his temperature again and it was 103.8. I called the doctor right away and they said to give him Tylenol and monitor his temp. If it didn’t come down by one degree in the next hour then we should call again. After an hour the temp had come down to 103.2, and when we spoke to the nurse again she said to try Motrin and again, if it wasn’t down in an hour to call back. The Motrin worked, and Eli’s temp came down to 102.4. He seemed to perk up with the Motrin in him and was willing to play a little bit (and stop screaming).

We had a really rough night though, as Eli’s temp kept shooting back up when the Motrin began to wear off, and then the screaming started. No matter what position Eli could not get comfortable it seemed, and just cried. He finally (exhausted I’m sure) fell asleep at 4 in the morning and slept until about 7. His temp was around 101 with the Motrin and he seemed pretty happy in the morning. The nurse from the doctor’s called us Saturday afternoon to se how he was doing, and told us that if his temp still was going back up to near 104 when the meds wore off that we should take him to urgent care and have him seen. Saturday afternoon his temp went back up to 103.8 and he was miserable – and this time the Motrin wasn’t taking the temp down at all – so we headed to urgent care at 7 pm on Saturday. By 9:30 we had our diagnosis - turns out Elijah had ear infections in both ears. So back on antibiotics for the little bean. One day on the medicine and Eli was feeling much better, and now he’s back to his normal, happy self.

On Friday night when Eli was so sick, around 2:30 in the morning, I (Missy) was holding him, and my left ear started really hurting. About half and hour later I couldn’t hear barely anything in that ear. My ear kept getting worse throughout Saturday and Sunday, so on Monday I was off to my doctor as well – to find out that I had an ear infection. So, Mom got a dose of antibiotics too! Now, 10 days after not being able to hear and being pretty miserable, I can finally hear again. Yay!