Terrible day

Dear Aidan,

Your fever came back again today. You woke up crying at 7am to both mommy and daddy's dismay. When I went to check up on you I found you drenched in sweat and burning hot. I gave you acetominophen (infant Tylenol) and that brought your fever down, but you were very needy and cranky the whole day. Usually when I give you medicine and your fever goes down you are back to your normal self, but today you weren't. You refused to eat any kinds of food- even Homo milk! Both daddy and I were worried sick because you weren't eating much. It was just exhausting because mommy had to finish her income tax form to send to our accountant, but I couldn't leave your side. Daddy was saying how kids seek their mother's touch when they are sick and it's so true!

Around noon when I tried to put you down for a nap you woke up crying 30 minutes later drenched in sweat again. However, this time around you had cold sweat. We were worried to the point that I called Telehealth Ontario again. But because there was a waiting list for the next available nurse they said they would call me back in an hour and a half. I realized that health is so important. Even with lots of money if you don't have good health it doesn't mean anything. Also, knowing our friends who had to go through hardship because their child had health problems is just heartbreaking.

I ended up putting you down for a nap again around 3:30pm. By that time you were delirious and exhausted. I had to lie down next to your crib so that you wouldn't freak out.

The nurse called me back around 5pm and she asked me a lot of scary questions like:

"Is your baby turning blue?"

"Is he coughing up blood?"

"Can he move his arms and legs"

She even asked me to wake you up from your nap so that she could check to see that you were responsive. That was pretty scary. Luckily I think I did everything I was supposed to do. She just suggested you get a teaspoon of honey for your cough and advised I see your doctor in the next 24 hours. I'm hoping that you will wake up revived and back to your normal self. If not, we will have to take you to the doctor.

Even though you were pretty sick during the day I got you to do several activities with me, such as drawing with crayons on paper.

You were more interested in putting the crayons in and out of the box, but you did scribble a few scribbles on the paper. You even dropped a drop of your spit on the paper.

Look at you hard at work.

You were wearing your new lion PJ set that mommy bought you on Friday. I absolutely love these PJ sets from Old Navy and Gap. They are amazing. I drew a caricature of the lion on the white paper.

Oh no, you just woke up crying. I better go check on you. I think your fever has returned. Sigh.