Sick Again

Well, the smell of puke is gone but sickness still lingers for Parker. Yesterday, we went to get Parker's 15mo shots (because, yes, I didn't realize we were suppose to do a 15 mo. check-up...Bad Mommy!) and do a post ear operation follow-up (which was on time). But I think Parker must have picked up another bug because I got a call from the daycare, later that afternoon, that Parker was running a slight fever -- Go figure, we visit two places where sick people frequent and we caught something. So I left work early in an attempt to catch him before he hit 101 and got kicked out of daycare for 24 hours.

That night he was cranky but, since he was chewing on his bottle of cold mild, I figured it all might be the result of teething -- he has to big molars coming in! Woo hoo!

But, today I got another call from the daycare. Parker's running another fever; this time at 103. They gave him Tylenol but it didn't seem to be helping so I had to go get him. Poor guy. We headed home and there I gave him a dose of Motrin, which usually works better than Tylenol. However, he soon was at 104.5 and, after a quick call to the doctor's office, it was judged that we should bring the little guy in. Unfortunately, they didn't know what he might have caught -- The fever's too high for teething. Seeing that he didn't react the other two times he had the polio shots, it's probably not the shot. Another kid, who also went in for shots yesterday, had caught hand-mouth disease, luckily for Parker, he didn't have any tell-tale signs (blisters on the hands and feet). The strep test also came back negative.

So now we're just going to stick to the Motrin and wait for this to blow over. Oh..and we're also deploying our secret weapon, Gram, who is coming over tomorrow to spend the day with Parker while I'm at work.