*cough* *hack*
So it's New Year's Eve, 2003.
We've gone to visit friends in Pennsylvania, had a good dinner on the 30th, and were going to spend the 31st chilling out and relaxing before having a relatively low-key evening watching the ball drop and drinking non-alcoholic Asti.
And then, at 4:30AM, Logan wakes up in the next room SCREAMING. Drenched in sweat, and screaming for mommy.
He was running a 104.9'F fever.
So we give him tylenol, cool liquids, try to get him to sleep... he gets a little better as the day goes on...
New Year's Day - same thing. Same time of the morning, drenched in sweat, screaming.
So we pack it in and go home 2 days early. At this point, the fever needs both Tylenol AND Advil, alternated, to keep it down.
(Bear in mind, those of you without children, that 104 is NOT the dangerous fever for a child that it is for an adult. Kids can tolerate 104' fevers just fine, it's not until they stay up over 105 for an extended period that it's bad...)
So rather than leaving bright and early Saturday or Sunday morning, we begin our 6+ hour journey Thursday EVENING.
By the time we get home, I'm feeling run down and so is Julie. Uh-oh, this doesn't bode well. We wake up the following morning both with full-blown flu. Shivering, fever, body aches, hacking cough, clogged head. Grr...
Thus began our (thus far) weeklong flu adventure. Logan's fever didn't break until night before last, that's an ENTIRE WEEK with a fever that spiked to nearly 105'. His cough is SLOWLY getting better, but he's still congested. Our fevers are gone at last, but again we still have massive sinus clogging, draining, and chest ickiness.
Then YESTERDAY, I was sleeping quite deliciously (you know the kind of sleep where you wake up in the morning, realize that the kid is NOT awake yet, and roll back over to get another half hour or hour in? THAT kind of sleep...) and suddenly I had a little twitch... and got shivery and woozy and couldn't sleep. ARGH! NO NO NO NO!
Felt fine all day, after a slightly shaky early morning, and now today the same thing happened. I've been up for an hour and a half now.
I refuse to allow myself to believe that my mystery disease is back, because that would just suck beyond all possible comprehension. So I'm going to assume that this flu, whatever it is, has now moved down from my head, through my lungs and chest, and to my intestines, where it is causing me to have mild distress in the mornings.
Either that, or I've been on this damn sinus medicine (pseudoephedrine with expectorant) so long that this is what "coming down" feels like.
Either way, I wish this flu on no-one. I cannot possibly offer any advice on how not to get it, other than sequestering yourself away from the world all winter and having your groceries and beer delivered through an airlock. The vaccines are ineffective this year (and healthy people shouldn't get them anyway), so all I can say is drink lots of OJ, take your vitamins, and stay the HELL away from ME.
- Gurm
So it's New Year's Eve, 2003.
We've gone to visit friends in Pennsylvania, had a good dinner on the 30th, and were going to spend the 31st chilling out and relaxing before having a relatively low-key evening watching the ball drop and drinking non-alcoholic Asti.
And then, at 4:30AM, Logan wakes up in the next room SCREAMING. Drenched in sweat, and screaming for mommy.
He was running a 104.9'F fever.
So we give him tylenol, cool liquids, try to get him to sleep... he gets a little better as the day goes on...
New Year's Day - same thing. Same time of the morning, drenched in sweat, screaming.
So we pack it in and go home 2 days early. At this point, the fever needs both Tylenol AND Advil, alternated, to keep it down.
(Bear in mind, those of you without children, that 104 is NOT the dangerous fever for a child that it is for an adult. Kids can tolerate 104' fevers just fine, it's not until they stay up over 105 for an extended period that it's bad...)
So rather than leaving bright and early Saturday or Sunday morning, we begin our 6+ hour journey Thursday EVENING.
By the time we get home, I'm feeling run down and so is Julie. Uh-oh, this doesn't bode well. We wake up the following morning both with full-blown flu. Shivering, fever, body aches, hacking cough, clogged head. Grr...
Thus began our (thus far) weeklong flu adventure. Logan's fever didn't break until night before last, that's an ENTIRE WEEK with a fever that spiked to nearly 105'. His cough is SLOWLY getting better, but he's still congested. Our fevers are gone at last, but again we still have massive sinus clogging, draining, and chest ickiness.
Then YESTERDAY, I was sleeping quite deliciously (you know the kind of sleep where you wake up in the morning, realize that the kid is NOT awake yet, and roll back over to get another half hour or hour in? THAT kind of sleep...) and suddenly I had a little twitch... and got shivery and woozy and couldn't sleep. ARGH! NO NO NO NO!
Felt fine all day, after a slightly shaky early morning, and now today the same thing happened. I've been up for an hour and a half now.
I refuse to allow myself to believe that my mystery disease is back, because that would just suck beyond all possible comprehension. So I'm going to assume that this flu, whatever it is, has now moved down from my head, through my lungs and chest, and to my intestines, where it is causing me to have mild distress in the mornings.
Either that, or I've been on this damn sinus medicine (pseudoephedrine with expectorant) so long that this is what "coming down" feels like.
Either way, I wish this flu on no-one. I cannot possibly offer any advice on how not to get it, other than sequestering yourself away from the world all winter and having your groceries and beer delivered through an airlock. The vaccines are ineffective this year (and healthy people shouldn't get them anyway), so all I can say is drink lots of OJ, take your vitamins, and stay the HELL away from ME.
- Gurm
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