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Timothy came down with a fever on Saturday. We gave him some Tylenol and that seemed to keep it in check.

That night, Marydalene looked in on Timothy as she was going to bed and discovered that he felt rather warm. She got out the thermometer to take his temperature, which got my attention and I wandered in to see what was going on. We had the thermometer in his mouth for a while when Marydalene started wondering if it was working. We turned on the light to see what was going on and saw that it was working, but was taking so long because it had to climb so high. It finally stopped at 104.8, which got us quite concerned. We gave him some more medicine and changed him to less warm pajamas and etc., and within an hour his temperature had gone down about a degree.

In the meantime I discovered that there aren't very many stores open on a late Saturday night, early Sunday morning. Especially stores that would sell children's Tylenol. We knew we wouldn't have enough medicine to last through Sunday, so I kept looking and wound up at Wal-Mart. Let me tell you, it's an interesting mix of people at Wal-Mart after midnight on a Saturday around here.

We got Timothy back to sleep and set an alarm for four hours so that we could give him another dose. When the alarm woke me up I was surprised to see that Marydalene was not in bed. I went to Timothy's room and found her there. Apparently after hearing me hit the snooze button twice, Marydalene asked me if she should get up and get Timothy his medicine. I didn't respond so she went ahead and did it. I guess hitting the snooze button is something I've practiced so much that I really can do it in my sleep.

Timothy has been on medicine all day today and it has kept his fever down to around 100. When he found out that he wasn't going to church today he assured us that he would be better by Tuesday so that he could go to school. I wonder if/when that will turn around.

It was a bit scary to see 104.8 on the thermometer, but it looks like he'll be alright.
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  1. Lynda/MomMarch 3, 2008 at 3:35 PM

    Poor Timothy! I guess we never will know why kids always get sick, cars always develop problems, plumbing backs up, things break, etc. etc on weekends. I hope he's feeling better soon. There is a lot of "stuff" going around this year.

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