you give me fever when you kiss me
fever when you hold me tight
Fever In the morning
Fever all through the night
In other words, Molly has a fever.
It isn't a massive fever. (So far) It isn't a get really worried about things and spend the night in the ER fever (commence wood knocking).
It is, however, the first time she's really been sick in her life. We both realize how lucky we are to have made it this far (although a full year would have been nice), but that doesn't make her or us any less miserable. That said, she's still a really good kid, even when sick. I'm probably jinxing myself here, but the past few nights she's slept for at least 6 - 7 hours at a stretch. And she's gone back to sleep if she wakes up at some un-Dogly hour. Molly definitely fusses throughout the day, but she also has periods of silence and happiness.
In addition to the fever (and whatever sickness is causing it), Molly is still hardcore teething. She has about six teeth coming in (at least) so her mouth hurts. For all you new or soon to be parents out there, how about a math lesson? Teething + sick kid (e.g. fever and diarrhea) = dehydration (my high school math teachers would be proud, I'm using more words in a math problem than numbers). Yup. Molly is a little dehydrated. Don't worry, we're keeping an eye on it and making sure she isn't in an danger. In addition to trying to entice her to drink water throughout the day, we've also read that foods high in fat and fiber are good for dealing with the water loss issue. So, after trying to make a homemade chicken noodle soup for her last night (utter failure as far as she was concerned - didn't touch any of it), we went a different route tonight: Chipotle.
Yes, we fed our sick child 'fast food'. However, the parts of the junk food she ate are actually helpful for her particular situation. Guacamole (avocados) is high in good fat. Black beans are high in fiber. Massive amounts of salt, which apparently what was missing from our homemade meal, means Molly wants to eat it. And boy, did she eat (she even drank more water too - especially when an errant jalapeno found its way into her mouth). At least she's getting calories and water.
So all in all, it could be worse.
That said, what type of parents would we be if we didn't document this with embarrassing photos?
Gotta have stylish hair before bed.
Glamor shot.
The thousand-yard stare pretty much sums up her weekend.
Really, how pathetic can you get?
1 comment:
When Robby was young (but maybe over a year) we were told to give pedialyte for dehydration/diarrhea. He was a little on the particular side and didn't care for the flavor (kind of salty). We've found that our kids really prefer the pedialyte "pops" which can be consumed either frozen or in their liquid form. They are much sweeter and appealing. Just something to keep in mind if the need every arises. Good luck you guys.
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