Our Sick Little Guy

Poor John Whitten has been horribly sick over these last couple days. He was fine on Friday morning, but around lunch his fever spiked and by 3:30 we were sitting at the doctors office. After two doses(I even gave him more than the recommended dosage) his fever was still 104.8 when the nurse first took it. Thirty minutes later they took it again and it was 105.4!! Now I am not a panicky parent and my kids usually have high fevers so I am use to them, but 105.4 even made me more than a little nervous. It made me nervous mainly because we couldn't seem to get it under control. Our nurse told us that our pediatrician might want to send us to children's, and that didn't help my panic. Luckily we got to come home, and after picking up his prescription we were snuggled up on the couch together.

It was a long night with a lot of tears, a lot of medicine, a couple of cold baths and a lot of prayer but his fever finally broke around 3 AM. Today it has only gotten as high as 103, so we have been really thankful for that. Shaun and I are just praying that he is 100% back to his wonderful self Christmas Eve! On the plus side, I have loved getting all of the extra cuddles that comes along with a sick little one.