Copy and pasted from the Nov. board:
When DH got home yesterday about 6.30, he woke George up (who had been asleep since lunch time) so I picked George up to feed him and noticed he was a bit warm so I took his clothes off and gave him some calpol, fed and changed him, he started to cool down so I put his sleepsuit on, we had dinner, got DS1 to bed, then we were led on the floor with George (who seemed fine now) playing, he was laughing and giggling, then when we went to put him his rocker chair to go to sleep he felt really cold so I put his blanket double on him and thought nothing of it, we started watching Dangerous Minds at 10 o'clock because there was nothing else on, about 10 minutes later George started breathing really funny, sounded like he was shivering, so DH picked him up and cuddled him up with us with a blanket wrapped round him, he still felt really cold to touch, he didn't stop shivering and if anything was starting to look worse, so I said should I ring NHS direct, DH said yeah give it a go, but I was starting to panic and could't remember the number, so I was looking for Georges red book thinking that will have the number in it, in the meantime Georges breathing was getting worse and worse, his eyes were rolling around his head, he was in and out of conciousness and had gone grey, he wasn't responding to anything or one, and was really violently shivering, so I said I am going to ring an ambulance, I managed to say "15 weeks old, freezing cold, not breathing properly, in and out of conciousness, not responding, looks awful" ambulance was here before I'd finished saying it, as soon as the paramedic walked in he said the baby is too hot, we stripped him down poured calpol down him, he had some oxygen and off we went to A&E blue lights (again - I am starting to get used to this now!!) basically we had to wait there till his temperature came down got home about 2-ish (poor DS1 he is off school today, might take him in after lunch though) and all the advice they could give was keep giving him calpol although sometimes it doesn't work (their words!) keep him undressed with a fan blowing on him so he stays ultra cool, and ring them if he starts fitting again. Cheers mate, I think we could have managed to do that...
He looked so poorly, they said the shivering like that was his bodies way of trying to cool down, but he felt cold to touch, I've never seen anything like it.
I don't think I have ever been so scared in my life TBH. The odd thing that has happened with DS1, I have been worried about him don't get me wrong but we have never come that close to loosing him.
When we got in the ambulance they were looking for those thermometre strips for the head to take his temp. and they didn't have any, so the paramedic felt his back and said he was really hot, got him to hospital and their thermometre that they normally use wasn't working, so they had to use a surface one which doesn't give the best reading, so we don't actually know what his temp. was at it's worst, but we had been in the hospital for an hour with him with no clothes on and a fan blowing on him for the whole time and when they eventually managed to get a readable temp off of him and it was 37.6 which she said was only just coming into 'normal' range, so it had taken him a whole hour to cool down enough to get normal-ish.
We are feeling pretty shell shocked and very very very lucky today!!
Anyway, must get DS1 ready for school, poor thing he was shitting it as well, he didn't even know the whole story and even he was asking if George was going to die.
(DS1 is now at school, that was from earlier)