sick baby :(

February 7, 2011
i have dreaded this day since somewhere around 4.21.10. i tend to be on the....ok ok i am on anxious side of well everything and therefore sick baby for me = very scary. i try to talk myself down from thinking things are the end of the world, but alas this is a constant struggle for me. that is where dan comes into play to talk me down from whatever disease i have donovan diagnosed with.

so monday afternoon donovan slept longer than normal and when he got up he was out of it. by out of it i mean he sat quietly in dan's lap and watched tv. dan recognized he felt hot so we took his temperature for only the second time in his life....so dan and i are not experts. we found donovan did have temp but of course in my mind, although the reading was low grade, did we take it right? was it really like 107.9 but we just miscalculated? by this time donovan is in meltdown mode in the middle of dinner so he is now covered in food. i of course am for sure that this is the onset of ecoli that my mother has so graciously alerted me to since donovan is often caught chewing on buck's bones. and for those of you that were wondering.....no he did not have diarrhea, an anxious mind is not rooted in reality.

after researching dosage guides for fever reducers we gave him some meds and put him to bed. i sat wringing my hands wondering if had had overdosed him on the meds? or if he was having a seizure that my mother also graciously educated me on. we all slept through the night.

February 8, 2011
donovan woke up the next morning seeming a bit fussy and tired. he still had a temperature that was rising. after a call to the doctor it was determined to keep him comfortable and continue trying as many fluids as possible.

luckily, my mom and granny were coming into town to keep donovan while i went to work so i did not have to worry about leaving him without family. i did however have to warn granny to not get mama's worries wound up, and mama to not get my worries wound up or else dan might send us all to a hotel for the night. part of the vows dan took when we got married was to help balance out my anxiety......but it is just too much to ask and a set up for failure to expect that for the whole fox clan.

donovan spent the day napping lots, eating little and battling off the fussies. he had puffy eyes and looked sad. i guess that is why i always hear moms say, "he does not feel good. i can tell by his eyes".

Febuary 9, 2011
i checked donovan's temp first thing and it was still at 103 degrees. so off to the dr. we go. the waiting room was full....i mean FULL of sick kiddos. a traumatic check over including a flu test and a strep test concluded the visit with a negative on both. so i quickly rushed home to drop the d-man off with gram and gigi so i could get to work. i came home to what i was sure would be a baby on the upswing.....no such luck....still sick. eating little, sleeping lots, and sad eyes.




February 10, 2011
this morning no temperature which is a relief since it is babysitter day. our sitter is lovely, but my baby is sick. a new symptom today....a rash. after yet another call to the dr. to check on the rash i am relieved to find it is fairly normal after having a virus. the sitter reported a good day, but we finish the night with an increasingly large rash and little to no appetite. as i have written earlier donovan has never turned down food, and we are having problems getting him to eat anything. i realize that based on symptoms the dr. is not worried, and donovan is having some good moments in the day, but i am afraid that i am not going to explain a symptom well enough and in the end when he sprouts his second head someone will say, "but you did not tell us his rash is on the left side of his body under his ear!" ....or something like that. i know i know that is the crazy in me talkin' but i cannot shake it.

February 11, 2011
today i get to be home all day with my boy. we are going on day two of no temperature, but the rash seems to be taking over. today i took matters in my own hands. you can call me dr. megan, because after a day of extensive research i have a diagnosis. my baby has the roseola, street name is sixth disease. if you would like to know more you can put this in your dr. bag with a little research in www. academia at babycenter.com and wikipedia.com......they do not charge a co-pay.


and so the rest of the weekend we laid low and continued to give the d-man long naps and frankly whatever he wanted to eat. the bottom line is we made it! we made it almost 10 months with no sicknesses, but the best part is the first one is under our belts.