It’s that time of year. The time when the weather starts turning and my kids start getting sick.
I hate this time of year.
Christiano started a low grade fever Wednesday night, along with his every time he’s sick he gets stomach problems that make changing diapers so much fun thing. It stayed low grade for a couple of days, didn’t think anything of it.
Yesterday it blew up. He was running at 102.8, but it was controllable most of the day with Tylenol, until later in the evening. I had Pato run to the store and get some more ibuprofin and started alternating. He got up at 4 AM just burning up. How hot was he? I don’t know. Pato changed the battery in my thermometer and it started reading 98.4 for every person in my house, including Christiano. Need a new thermometer now. He’s cranky, and tired, and just wants to lay on mama. (That’s why I didn’t blog yesterday. I laid with him most of the time. He would sleep as long as he was laying with my arm under his neck and snuggled up against me. If I tried to leave him, he’d wake up crying. 
Poor baby.) At 4, I had Pato throw him in a tepid bath, that brought it down for a bit and gave the dose of Tylenol time to start working.
I called the doctor yesterday to see if I should watch him or bring him in. Normally I would just watch him, but I was a little concerned about all the mosquito bites he had accompanied by getting sick right afterwards. I didn’t bring bug spray to practice last Tuesday night. It was cold. We haven’t had a problem with mosquitoes all year over there. Why would I? The child got ate up. Then Thursday, I had forgotten about the mosquitoes, until we got to Kat’s game, and he got ate up again. Christiano is like Jordan. If they get a mosquito bite it swells up huge and lasts FOREVER. He still has the bites that he got on Tuesday.
I looked up the symptoms of West Nile Virus,
Milder Symptoms in Some People. Up to 20 percent of the people who become infected have symptoms such as fever, headache, and body aches, nausea, vomiting, and sometimes swollen lymph glands or a skin rash on the chest, stomach and back. Symptoms can last for as short as a few days, though even healthy people have become sick for several weeks.
He had the fever and a rash on his cheeks (though WNV rash is supposed to be on stomach and back). The stomach issues weren’t listed, but that doesn’t mean anything to me. Christiano gets that all time time anyway. If you look at this map, there have been human infections of WNV reported this year in Iowa. So, it’s not too far fetched that I would be concerned about it with all the bites and the getting sick right afterwards.
So, he has the fever, he vomited twice last night, and his cheeks are rashed out (that can be caused by a fever in little kids too though). I am not sure about the rest because he can’t tell me. He’s just cranky.
The on-call doctor said to watch him until Monday when my regular doctor is on, unless his fever surges out of control and isn’t coming down when he has Tylenol/ibuprofin.
I doubt it’s WNV, but remember, this is paranoid mommy here. Even on my 4th kid, I have to restrain myself from running to the doctor with every cough, sneeze, and slight temperature. I know, I know, it’s just a virus. I hate those words. It means there’s nothing I can do to make them better.
It might have been Pato and my imagination last night but we thought Alyce was feeling warm before she went to bed. Couldn’t tell you if she really was or not, my thermometer said her temp was 98.4.
Sigh
Jordan had a nasty headache yesterday. Only Katiana felt good.
Knock on wood that she doesn’t come down with anything.
And me, I’ve got a sty brewing in my eye. You know that uncomfortable feeling you get in your inner eye. It’s sensitive, starting to feel tight, just hurts a little. Got that.
Anyone else want to add something to that list?
Jordan just got up and his head still hurts. Christiano is hot. I’m going to go out on a limb and say we are not going to his soccer game today.
He’s not overly torn up about it. I wouldn’t be either if my head hurt like his did.
Have a great day!
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