Flu

I guess by now you are used to my extra long post. I was going to break this up some but thought to myself... Self, why would you go changing things now? lol

Flu.
Anderson started getting a sratchy throat. Now a little back story [I have been blessed beyond belief with a very healthy child, we got tubes put in his ears Feb 2008 because of recurrent ear infections. After the tubes were in, he didn't go to a doctors office for anything but well baby checks for a whole year. May 2009 I thought he had an ear infection and took him to the doctor only to find out he was cutting a molar and was running fever and having some pain in that side of his face. Not sick] Needless to say when he got this scratchy throat I had him in the doctor's office at 8:00am Friday morning. He looked at his throat, then pulled him up on the computer and said... he hasn't been in for over a year, I said I know that is why I am freaking out! He sent us down for a nose swab (for flu) and a throat swab (for strep) and we went home to wait for the results. The doctor called about an hour later to tell us he did, in fact have the flu. I asked him what type if it was the H1N1 and he told me they didn't really test for that any longer, the treatment is the same. He also said that the H1N1 is usually upper respitory, which is where his seems to be, so what we need to watch for is pnomonia in a week or so. I took that piece of information as he DID have H1N1. (this was not my regular doctor, she was out of the office so this was a doctor from a walk up clinic in the physicans office) I took him to his Nanny's house that morning (before I knew it was the flu) and ran into the office to get some things in order and went to Walmart to fill his perscriptions and get some stuff to nurse him back to health. We got to the house around noon and he was already acting sickly, very clingy and wanted me to hold him and cuddle. He ate and took a nap, when he woke up he was burning up. I pulled out the thermometer to take his temp and .... you guessed it, the batteries were actually dead. I called his nanny to bring me one, took his temp and it was 101. I had already given him Motrin so I had to wait for 2 more hours to give him another dose, by that time his fever was up to 102.7 -- I was freaking out then. I gave him a dose of Motrin at 4 and his temp lowered back to 100. He slept on my chest for another couple of hours, I tried to lay him down but he wanted me to hold him. I didn't mind, I just didn't want to make him hotter. When he woke up he was doing ok.
Saturday night:
OK I DIDNT KNOW THAT WHEN YOUR BABY IS SICK THAT YOU CAN ROTATE TYLENOL AND MOTRIN EVERY 4 HOURS. I FEEL AWEFUL - HE JUST HASNT BEEN SICK SO I JUST DIDNT KNOW, HAD I KNOWN I DONT THINK HIS FEVER WOULD HAVE BEEN WHAT IT WAS... I lost my mom of the year award..
Anyway. Anderson had taken a nap Saturday and had a little spring in his step, got up and played for a bit then came and asked to be held. He asked what is the matter with my eyes mommy? I felt him and he was ON FIRE. I took his temp 104.1 I started pulling up stuff on the internet, asked pals on FB called my mom. We tried the tepid bath, but he said it hurt. (I think from being cold, you know when you have fever your body hurts anyway) So I stuck to a cool compress and had him to drink COLD apple juice, that was so scary he was lathargic and listless - my baby was just kind of out of it. I called the nurse hotline at the hosptial (this is when I found out about the mortin and tylenol rotation) they said if it got up to 105 to bring him in, when I called I had already got it down to 102.8. After I started to rotate the meds, he didn't run over 101 fever the rest of the night and was fever free most of the day Sunday.
We made it, he is better and I learned some good lessons, unfortunatly at my son's expense. I hated that he was sick and I hope we don't get sick again for a while, but after reading all about Layla I feel like I handled him being sick much differently. Well that was our weekend...