Seeking God Knows What

No, that isn’t the temperature outside, although it’s close (it is 90 degrees, feels like 101). That would be Widget’s temperature. I feel pretty badly because she was probably running this fever since last night but I blamed her hot body on us having no a/c and the warm, humid night. T’s mom called me this afternoon, while I was at work, to tell me she thought Widget was running a fever as she was very, very warm despite having been inside in the a/c all day, plus she didn’t eat anything and just wanted to sit on Grandma’s lap. I picked her up from Grandma’s, stopped at Walgreen’s and bought a handy ear thermometer to get an accurate temperature, got home, took her temperature and it was 105 three times in a row. Needless to say, after dosing her with Motrin, talking to the phone nurse at PH’s (since he’s her doctor as well as mine) office to make sure I didn’t need to bring her in right away, I packed us into the car and drove the 30 minutes back to Grandma’s to stay overnight in the nice cool house. Fortunately, her temp dropped to 102.5 after an hour and then just over 100 after two hours when I dosed her with tylenol per the nurse’s instruction and her energy level has certainly gone up. So we wait and see now. She has no other symptoms and, in fact, we just finished up a third round of antibiotics on Thursday night for impetigo, which finally completely cleared up after having been around since right before we went to TN at the beginning of May.

Oh well, at least we get to enjoy someone’s a/c.