Garrett's temperature - 104.4F experience

This is a crazy cold season; every kid gets sick at daycare. I saw almost all of them have running nose everywhere and the teacher does not clean for them. I am not sure if she is afraid they will have pain after wipe at the same spot so many times or she is just lazy.

My Garrett and Noah are the same. They have cough, running nose, fever, and ear infection. It is fun when they are healthy and hard when they are sick. Noah has not slept through the night yet, he keeps waking up at night and more often when he is sick. I know he does not feel good, so I also awake to temper him.

And Garret has been having low fever for over one week; it kept coming back and forth. I did not think he might have ear infection until today, so we took him to doctor and get antibiotic. Not sure because of ear infection or something else is going in his body, the night before he woke up few times said bunch of things that did not make senses. And especially last night, as usual my baby wakes me up because he is hungry, so I fed him. When I was going back to sleep I use my hand to check Garrett’s head. I did not feel it too bad so I tried going back to sleep. After laid down about five minutes, I feel Garrett is shaking. So I woke up to check, I thought he was cold, so I put blanket on him and hold him. But he still keep shaking I thought something is not right here. I woke my husband up and ask him look online to see if he finds any reason why Garrett likes this. He spent few minutes and said he did not find anything. After about ten minutes Garrett quits shaking. I thought he was OK then I checked his temperature. Oh my god, it was 104.4, which is the number that the doctor always tells me bring them to ER immediately. It is scary if I did not learn from few of my friends whose kid had this high fever before, and they brought him in ER. At the hospital, they just put him in cold water and gave him Motrin until fever reduces and sent them home. So I gave Garrett one and a half teaspoon Advil and put him in warm bath for about 20 minutes. That helps his temperature goes down to 99.7. What a release! So we let him out of bath and keep checking his temperature every ten minutes after that for about 1 hour to make sure it did not go back up. Then we all eventually fall to sleep, it was almost five in the morning. What a night! And thanks God my baby woke me up so I was able to check on Garrett.

Hope they feel good by the end of the week since we have planned to go to the camp this weekend.