To ask my next door neighbour if she has a thermometer i can borrow?

[theUrbanNixie]

Ds has quite a high temperature, but i don't know how high as out thermometer has run out of battery. I thought i might pop next door and ask my neighbour if she has a fever strip or something (they have a little boy a bit younger than my ds) but i feel like i'm taking the piss a bit as in the past i have:

Asked them if they can give us water from their tap when ours was all manky.
Borrowed their hoover.
Been round there for company when we'd just moved and i didn't know anyone and i was painfully lonely!

i don't want to be one of those people that other people post about on MN saying "AIBU to think my neighbour's being a scab?"

I don't think she would mind - it is an emergency after all. You need to know how bad he is.

Is there nobody who can go to a petrol station and get some batteries?

Hope he feels better soon.

No not at all. What goes around comes around. You'll start repaying the favours soon enough. Most people actively like being given the opportunity to help someone out. Particularly if it's something easy like lending out something small.

YANBU. Don't worry about it.

it's a lithium battery - the type you get in watches so i'll need to take it to a jewellers tomorrow.

yanbu. Your ds is ill and your asking a favour. Its not like you have kept hoover and are constantly going round for food that you dont replace etc IFYWIM

just go and ask this is a dire need not luxury thing ........my neighbour woke me at 6am once for calpol

just go and ask .

They won't mind (especially if you pop round with some cakes or something tomorrow to say thanks )

just been up with him - he's lying on our bed just whimpering in his sleep!

will go have pee then pop round and ask.

aw your poor DS, sounds poorly . Hope he is ok, and your neighbour will not mind a bit. if they did, you would already have gaged that last time or time before. Hope he feels better soon

Sure she won't mind. My neighbour and I borrow things from each other all the time (children included!)

If she doesn't is there something that you can take the battery out of? Electronic game or watch?

just taken his temp - tis 38.5

am currently taking advice from my parenting guru (LadyTophamHatt)

38.5 is a fever, but not too high, depending on what else is wrong with him...
I was told by my Dr a lower grade fever with other symptoms is sometimes more concerning than a happy baby behaving normally with a really high fever.

FWIW, a few weeks ago my DD had a temp of 41 , and apart from being more clingy than usual, she was running around fine. I wasn't, of course! It just rocketed from a not too concerning 38.3 to 41 within a couple hours! Turned out she had a sinus infection.

Not saying you should be concerned gosh sorry that sounded awful. Just meant that a high fever is not always a concern, depends how your DS is in himself.

Pavlov - have started new thread in Health.