On Thursday as I was finishing my morning errands and on my way to pick up Amanda from school before running my afternoon errands, I got a call from the elementary school. The dreaded call from the elementary school. Sarah was sick. At first they said she was really sick, but they continued to say her only symptom was a 102 fever. No vomiting, nothing else, just a fever. To me that does not denote a very sick child, it just means that I am going to have a cramp in my style for the next few days.
She went to the clinic because she had a tummy ache. They decided to take her temperature while she was there and that's how they got the 102 reading. They must have taken it during the only hour of the day that she had a fever, because once I got her home and gave her some Advil she perked right up. Unfortunately, the school has a 24-hour no fever rule and you can't really trick the school when they are the ones that are taking it. Not that I would anyway. I'm a stay at home mom, I don't really have a good excuse for sending my kids to school sick, unless lazy is a good excuse. So, since they took her temp at 11 a.m., she automatically excused herself from school today as well.
I'm not saying that she's not sick, but the only symptom she has is a fever, and once she's got a little medicine in her it's like she's not even sick. No stomach ache, no ear ache, no cough or runny nose, no sore throat, just a fever. Andy did this once to me for five days, I thought I was going to go crazy. She was actually pretty mature about it and tried to take a nap this afternoon, but then Andy came home from school and started very loudly telling Amanda how to play a game on the computer and Sarah couldn't sleep. Poor kid.
Tomorrow we're supposed to go to see Disney on Ice, just the two of us for some mommy-daughter bonding, so unless her condition gets worse and she's super duper sick I will still take her. She's already said if she feels awful that Amanda can go as her backup (very sweet), but I don't think she'll allow that to happen. Then tomorrow night we're supposed to go to some Lights At The Zoo thing, so hopefully she'll be up for that as well. More importantly, I just hope whatever she has doesn't spread. This is not a good time of year for any of us to get sick, and I certainly don't want to be the new family that gives the gift of illness at the holidays.
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