Our sick little man

Well, it has been a long weekend (and today!). Last weekend Gus had a pretty high temperature, but after 24 hours and Tylenol, it had gone down. He seemed fine all week; we thought that he had just had a little 24 hour bug. His appetite was a little weak all week, but other than that he had seemed fine. Never really seemed like he had a temp, so we didn't check it.

On Saturday night, Gus woke up in the middle of the night with a temperature of over 103 again. Tylenol helped a lot (kept it at 100-101), but the second we didn't give it to him, his temperature would spike from 101 to over 103 in a very short time frame.

He kept Josh and I up nearly all night the last two nights, and when he woke up this morning, his temperature was 104.3, so I took him to the walk-in clinic at our pediatricians office. After two hours of waiting and a negative strep test, the Dr. decided to run blood work, which revealed a bacterial infection. So, our little man in on antibiotics for the first time, and not feeling well at all. Even with Tylenol, his temperature was 104.2 a few hours ago. It is so sad to see him just lay there and stare at you, with his sick eyes, rosy cheeks and burning hot skin. All he wants to do is lay on my lap and sleep. I gave him an overlapping dose of Motrin (on top of Tylenol) about two hours ago because I did not know what to do to get his temp down, and that seemed to do the trick for now. The doctor had said to do that at last resort if I could not get his temp under 104. So, now his temp is down to 102.5. He started to feel better enough to eat something, which he had hardly done all day, or all weekend for that matter. He is napping now, so we will see how tonight goes.

Upside, it is gorgeous outside! Downside, Gus is too sick for the parade tomorrow :( But, the doc said with the antibiotics Gus should only get better and should no longer have a temperature after Wednesday. Good thing, cause mommy and daddy were really starting to worry about the little guy. Thank the Lord it is spring break and I can be home with him and not miss work (guess I'll have to cancel the trip to Jamaica I had planed, LOL!).

And for those of you wondering, still no baby Varner to report...