a sick toddler ain’t fun

Posted on October 24, 2008

Mateo has been having on-off low-grade fever since Wednesday last week. To say that we’re worried because it’s been more than a week already, is an understatement. The whole thing is made more complicated with the fact that his pedia is out of the country since Wednesday last week also. He started having cough, really bad cough a few days after the onset of fever so we thought we should just wait for it to clear.

Sunday night, he had his highest temperature which was 38.2 degrees Celsius so Ramil and I decided that one of us should bring Mateo to a pedia, any pedia, the next day. So last Monday, I didn’t go to school and I brought Mateo to the nearest hospital and asked for a pedia who’s holding clinic at the time. We got a very friendly lady who prescribed a mild antibiotic (Amoxil) and an anti-asthma/expectorant (Ventolin) for Mateo.

Unfortunately, the fever didn’t let up and after half-way through the medication, Ramil and I decided to do laboratory works on our son. I brought him to a nearby lab today for blood tests and urinalysis. I’m just optimistic because at least Mateo’s pedia will be arriving today and we’ll be able to bring him for a check-up within the next few days. I have yet to get the results of the lab work later this afternoon and I’m hoping he’s clear for anything serious. I’m getting acne just from worrying about him.

I keep hoping that I could just get the brunt of the sickness from him. If only a parent could do that, I’m sure there’ll be a lot of sick parents out there instead of sick children. Nevertheless, he’s such a trooper. If he didn’t have cough I would have brought him ice cream earlier for enduring with the collection of the blood and urine. I’m praying he gets better soon.

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