This is what...

... this blog is supposed to be for. For me to look back and say, "What went on on June 5th/6th/7th in 2010?"

"Jacob was sick, wasn't he?"

Yep, he was/is. Friday night, well, technically Saturday morning, he woke up at 2:00a and proceeded to throw up four times over the next two hours. After waking at 9:00a he felt much better for most of the day, then started running a low grade fever. Then the rash came. G-r-e-a-t. Then the fever got higher, about 101. We didn't go to the Rapids game with Mark and Janie. Saturday night, while watching Ice Age, the rash became itchy... he had very red and itchy feet.

Sunday morning he felt much better. Fever came and went during the day, never too high. Sunday afternoon it was back up at 101.3 (these are external temps). Gave him Tylenol, it kicked in and he felt much better, temp came down. He went to bed without much fanfare... teeth brushed, jammies on, water fixed, inhaler inhaled, etc. I went in to check him at 12:50a (I was up because Janie's CGM is throwing ??? at me and I was trying to get the thing to behave... another story) and he was burning up. External temp was 102.3, so actual temp was closer to 103.3. I've always heard 104 was time to start worrying... some Googling confirmed and I threw myself into full getting ready to worry mode.

The boy is now on the couch watching Little Bear with a damp cloth on his forehead, a sippy full of ice water and 2 tsp of Tylenol hopefully doing it's job. I will check him again... well, right now. I was giving the Tylenol 45 minutes to kick in and it's been 45 minutes on the button.

Wow, that stuff really works... 100.1 at the beep. He looks much better. Ate most of a nice, cold apple sauce and even smiled at Cat jumping out of a log.

He wants more apple sauce.