Fever fever go away...

3rd August 2009-4th August 2009

Just 2 days before Emre turns 1yr old, he fell sick.
On the 3rd August morning ard 6+am, i woke him up gently to change his diapers and to drop him off at my mom's place before i head for work. I felt his feverish body and think he might be having a fever, since he do not normally feel so hot in the early morning.

Measured his temperature, 38.5degree was shown on the thermometer, i tot i got it wrongly, thus i measured 3 more times..with readings of 38.5-38.8 degree.
Feeling panicky, i called hubby (who went to fetch the car and to wait for us downstairs) and told him emre is burning a fever.

He came up quickly and showed him the thermometor, took two more measurements and decided to bring him to the doctor. We notified our work place and took cl for the day.
Brought him to the clinic near our place, got to wait till 10+am before his turn (the clinic was really packed with apptmts even on a monday morning)
Doctor say it is a viral fever may persists from 3days-1 wk time,seek for her advice on travelling in 2days time, she adviced no problem to travel due to the short flight, however, should keep him indoor if travelling and that will probably spoilt our holidays. oh well, i told hubby we shall see how his condition goes for the next 2 days.

During the day, emre fever susided with each feed of medicine, controlled his temperature ard 37.5-38 degree.
The very night, emre burns up to 40degree, whole nite i couldnt sleep, as i keep to the 4hourly feeding of his medicine as well as sponging his body wherever i can, this little one is not a fan of sponging.
Every part of his body feels so hot, i woke his dad up ard 5+am to ask if we should send him to KKH. We decided to go, thus we changed and was about to leave when i told hubby, maybe we should monitor further, since if we go KKH, they might just give the same medicine and sponge him. (fickle minded mommy here)

Sms some mommies for their advice and decided to stay home and took another day of CL to take care of my boy. Mom came over to help out as i did not sleep the nite before, i catch a short nap when mom came over. Emre's fever was abit better, as he did not hit the 40 degree, i called back to the same clinic and asked if i should bring him back since he is burning up and down. The nurse was very kind to check with the doc and return call to say normally when baby got fever, it is normal for them to burn up and down, just got to make sure he take his medicine timely to keep his temperature near 37.4degree.
Asked hubby to call and cancel the trip as am afraid emre will burn high up again in the night and i do not want to be out of sg if that happens.
Hubby checked and say can cancel but must pay all flight & hotel in full, since he was not able to make the trip any other time in mth of august. Thus, we decided to see how our little boy's condition is before making the decision, we were prepared to pay in full should we not be able to go anyway.

5th August 2009

Emre went through the night with no spike in his temperature, in fact he was free of fever in the early morning at about 5+am..thus we decided to go ahead with the trip.