*sigh*

It turns out she was sick. :-/ Thanks everyone for the wonderful sleepy-time suggestions though!

Poor thing is red in the face! Her stork bite is really bright because she’s so hot. She just hangs on me like a rag doll. I took her temperature and it was 102.7 and climbing! I say “and climbing” because even though it was almost done, the numbers were still climbing when Laelia peed on me. It was one of those thermometers.

Charley called the triage nurse who told us to watch the fever and put medicine in her, but even though we were half out the door, she said to give the medicine a little time to work before running her to the emergency room.

So I ran out to the store tonight and grabbed some Tylenol. My respite gal, Angela, had been watching Laelia tonight and told me that Lali had been lethargic, had a runny nose and was hot. Hmm… sorry other nursery kids! I would have kept her home! She seemed fine, just cranky (for her anyway, she’s a pretty good baby) and besides not eating very much and sleeping a lot, I thought she was fine. She was a little warm when I dropped her off in the nursery, but it’s hot outside. Poor thing. Now she’s on fire. We turned down the air conditioner in her room to “freezing” and propped her with a big pillow. Then I sang that one song she likes over and over and over and over and over while rubbing her tummy until she fell asleep. (She gave me the cutest little sleepy-eyes until she finally fell asleep. Poor sick dear!) She has a hard time staying asleep when she’s so miserable so I have a feeling I won’t be getting any sleep tonight. (It’s been almost two hours after putting her down and she’s woken up crying four times.) I’m forgoing her night splints because they are so bulky and she is already so warm. I’ll wait for her fever to break first.

I hate when she’s miserable. I just think it’s only fair that special kids who have special treatments everyday shouldn’t ever have to have colds! Leave colds for boring kids.

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