Today started early. Normally, we sleep in a little bit on Saturdays. Not late, because the dogs will start making noise to be fed but usually one of us at least gets to sleep in until at least 6:00 or 6:30. Usually, the one that gets up (usually Bill) will feed the dogs and frequently come back to bed for an hour or so. Today, Bill actually got up way earlier than normal because he couldn't sleep.
Which means that he was up at 5:30, when Otter vaulted out of bed and to the bathroom. Where she threw up. He came and got me at that point, because a) he's a sympathy puker especially if he smells anything and b) there are times when you just need your mom! I could tell she was probably feverish, and she went back to bed soon. I took her temperature a little later, and she was about 101. She had tylenol at 10:30 and went back to sleep. I took her temperature a couple of times, and it got up to over 102. That was after she'd had a shower which usually helps. Which is when we decided it was time to see the doctor. Since it's Saturday, we went to the walk-in clinic we sometimes use. Being a Saturday, they had a few people waiting but we really didn't have to wait very long.
As a precaution, they did a flu test. I mentioned that we'd had the flu shots, but apparently a lot of people who also got the shots are getting the flu. Including Otter!
She is taking tamilfu, which she has taken before but it didn't really work then. Of course, she'd had the flu nearly a week before we realized it and tamiflu really should be started within 24 hours of the flu coming on. When she had it before, we'd also had the flu shots but that was the year that the Tulsa health department improperly stored the serum and just about everybody got sick. At that time, Otter's symptoms never really matched the normal flu symptoms, and even the doctor was surprised at the positive test. Today, I really wasn't surprised given the fever and the way it was coming on and not really responding to the tylenol. She has had some body aches as well, but she was thinking it was because she'd slept in one position for several hours.
She's going to be home at least through Monday. Maybe Tuesday, but that depends on the fever. Because she has asthma and the flu generally does affect it, I'm going to stay home with her on Monday. If she's home on Tuesday, Bill will be with her. She will email her teachers tomorrow and make arrangement for any assignments, notes, etc. that she'll need to get.
We aren't even going to attempt to go to church tomorrow, or probably not anywhere else beyond returning the movie I rented yesterday. I'm just going to keep my fingers crossed that what Bill and I have also been fighting is in fact allergies and not the flu.
No comments:
Post a Comment