I have two of the bloody things and one battery died ages ago (a shitty backup one) and my main one is bleeping with no screen! (because my actual proper in the ear main one already broke - not doing well with them )
Anyway. DD has flu bug of some kind. She came running in from the car to the house after DH picked her up from school, ran into my arms, literally jumped into them curled around me and sobbed that she felt unwell, started within the hour as she said she was ok at school. She said her head hurt, her wrist hurt and she felt like she had a fever. She was a little bit hot and I thought she was just tired
within that hour she went from being a bit hot to quite hot, calpol and something to eat, snuggles on the sofa, and constant complaining of her knee being sore, her ankle being sore, locating places on her arm (obviously viral bug of some kind, pains make me think it's flu) and in particular severe pain in her head, above her eye and at the back of her head.
Her temperature then soared, gave her ibruprofen about 1 hour after calpol, temp dropped a little, not a huge amount, but enough that she was v hot, not boiling hot. She had a lukewarm bath (she insisted) and she perked up for about 1 hour.
In our bed for films, by the time calpol was due her fever has risen to seriously high, without a thermometer I can't say for sure, but I am pretty good at spotting high fever in the kids and getting the temp approx right, so I would say it was/is 40. She took her calpol, then within 15 mins or so threw up, proper projectile vomiting, luckily into the bowl, (along with a lot of farts! ).
I gave her another half dose of calpol as she had thrown the last dose up but have been weary of giving her full dose just in case she absorbed some.
But her fever has not gone down, and I worried that I can't check it properly with thermometer and I can't give her more ibruprofen for ages.
Should I get DH to buy a thermometer on way home from work? (well, not on way home, he needs to go to 24hr supermarket about 15 min drive in other direction.
- I go to shit when my babies are poorly 2. DD never gets really sick, she gets a bit of a fever, nothing major, maybe a sore throat and/or a cough but nothing huge, so when she is poorly like this I freak out worrying something is wrong. I know really it's a bug, but, I am still worried! (I am like this anyway though, was on MN having my hand held with poorly DS a few weeks ago when he had proper flu and constant raised temp for ages).