Fever

I'm finally back to my desk at work. I was away on mc for 2 days. These 2 days has been a living torture for me. I was physically and mentally drained. As claimed in the earlier post, I was infected with a deadly flu virus and I thought I need a hell lot of rest to recover. But when I got home on Monday, I found out that lunz was having fever. No doubt the virus was even quicker than I thought. Immediately, both daddy and I sent him to the paed. It took us blardy 3 hours to get a doctor's consultation. We went for the first clinic and were told that the doctor was out for dinner. Then, we went to the next one and we waited for eternity because there was a patient who seems to be forever in the doctor's room. I could wait no longer. Lunz temperature was 39 degrees and I'm blardy wwwooorrriieddd! We move on to the opposite clinic. It was a child's specialist.

He has throat infection and antibiotic was given. The doctor gave me 5 types of medicine altogether. I don't know how 5 different kinds of medicine would taste like when it were to be mixed with milk but I doubt it will taste good. As predicted, he shivered when he tasted the mixture and although he tried to finish it, he can't because it really tasted terrible. Perhaps the smell of the antibiotic was too strong?? Mum suggested that I bring him to his usual paed. early next morning due to his medicine works better. This clinic only opens during the day which explains why I did not send him earlier.

I monitored his temperature throughout the night. I dare not take any drowsy medicine although I was sick for fear that I might overslept and missed the monitoring job. I can't let that happen as fever is a serious thing and if you are not cautious, the temperature will keep on climbing and it can be disastrous. I woke up every one or two hours taking his temperature. When morning comes, I sent him to his "Godfather" (The paed.). I was told it was a trend now. Most of the kids that came to him since that morning were all contracted with the same sickness. I was told to give him most importantly the antibiotic and the fever medicine routinely first for the fever to subside then only continued with the cough and flu medicine.

There he was, lying motionless because the fever still lingers on. The antibiotic needs time to work its miracle. Once the fever medicine was taken every 4 hours, the temperature dropped for only 1 degrees. Not more. The temperature only went down to 38 degrees, the minimum. His lips was very dried and when times he cried, it cracked and bleed. I was having second thought about admitting him into the hospital. I had even gotten his medical card ready on the go until daddy arrived after work and calmed me down. Daddy told me that he read an article about fever and the ways to bring down the temperature. Those includes consuming a lot of fluid (That's why daddy bought bottles of Vitagen for lunz), minimal dressing (No long sleeves or pants) and sponging. I rang up the paed. for advice on hospital admittance and was told to do the same thing. Immediately after hanging up the phone, I sponged him and changed him into a sleeveless shirt and short pants. I could felt his body cooled down a bit. Daddy helped me out and I'm glad he was there to support me.

And for the rest of the night, another round of monitoring job. I inserted twice the rectal paracetamol tablet for every 4 hours throughout the night. By morning, the fever was gone for good. What a relief! But I decided to take another day off also in case it comes back. He was back to his own self since yesterday. Happily hopping around. And there I am still coughing badly and sick due to insufficient rest. But considering he is fine, I guess I will have my time to recover soon. That's why there is the old people saying, "When you see a kid is motionless, then there is something wrong" and believe me, I did rather see him hopping around.

I am still very much exhausted. This morning I went over to the weighting machine in my office's pantry. The scale showed 53kg. I have lost 2 kgs from the outcome. Don't know whether it is a good news but I think I really need a good rest...