Grumpy Little Man

Unfortunately, Andy's fever only got worse during the night and reached a high of 102.4 When they get 103 then doctors will usually want to see them or have them go to Primary Children's Hospital if it's during night hours. We called the doctor who was on call during the night and she said to give him an hour to see if the temperature would come down and if he would take fluids. If those things didn't happen then we would have to take him to the hospital. We decided to bribe him with cranberry juice. He loves sweet juice and we needed him to take in fluids so we let him chug all the juice his little heart wanted. I also took off his shirt because he was almost on fire. That did the trick because an hour later we were able to get his temperature to 100.7 I am really glad we didn't have to make a trip to the hospital and I am even more glad that he got some relief. In the morning (after very little sleep) we took him the his doctor. She said that teething wasn't the cause for all the grumpiness and fevers; he definitely had a bug. Poor little guy. He's on Motrin right now and pedialyte. We just have to wait for it to go away because it's viral. He might have caught it from a kid a church because our doctor told us she as seen so many children in the last two weeks with the same symptoms. Tonight was much better than last night and he is peacefully slumbering away... Let's hope he can stay that way! Say some prayers for our cute little guy, he's pretty upset at the world right now, being sick AND teething is NO fun at all!