Joel gave me a scare this evening.. he wasn't his usual into everything, jovial self. He climbed up beside me on the porch swing and he lay his head on my lap. I went in and got him a pillow, and he twisted around and lay so still, and I sang to him, and in a few minutes his eyes just fluttered, and he fell to sleep. This youngin doesn't sleep like that.. even when he's exhausted he fights it tooth and toenail. I got to looking at his arms and legs and his face more closely.. and what I'd thought was a sunburn was actually some sort of rash. It was all over him. Earlier, what I thought had been a burn was just on his face and arms, and now it was going down his little legs. Lisa and Nick pulled up and Joel heard their car.. he sat up on his elbows, said "Nick." And I leaned to pick him up and he was burning up with a fever. I couldn't find my thermometer, but I know that fever was about 102 if not higher. Lisa agreed and we got him into the bathtub and cooled him down. We got Bonnie home to take him to the emergency room, that rash didn't look like anything I'd ever seen on a kid before. It was like..raised red swirls, and beneath it, a white line, that looked like it was trying to play connect the dots with the raised red welts. I'd given him some benedryl, and tylenol before Bonnie got here, and by the time she got him to see a doctor, the rash was gone. He did, however, have a bug bite of some sort on his behind, so the doc gave him some antibiotics. He did say that Joel had been exposed to a little too much sun yesterday, which he felt had caused the rash. I'm glad it wasn't anything serious. It scares me to death when one of these kids get sick. He was doing fine afterwards. He ate his french fwys. He played. He whispered to Bonnie just like I taught him to do,(insert delicious laughter here) "I see dead people." Thank God. The runt's ok!
Posted by juel at July 25, 2005 01:55 AM