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Lucky for us he is almost 20 months old and he has yet to have a temp until lastnight when I went to lay down…

First of all yesterday was a little diferent for him…He was content as always but he did not have more than one or two wet diapers…We had gone to Incredible Pizza Company the day before and while I tried not to be tooo over the top ocd about germs and let him enjoy his time I knew in the back of my head that he would likely get sick for the first time after I saw him put his finger in his mouth a couple times before having washed them…

Sooo, lastnight he woke up several times from when he went to bed to when I went to lay with him at about 1am.

This was unusual and I just wondered if he was having a bad dream but like always I went for my routine kiss to the head and it burned my lips…I was immediately concerned but just thought to myself be calm maybe he is just warm so I took off his pants.

A little while passed and he was really hot all over and was stirring around clearly sleeping restlessly and I started to panic a little…

I did a rectal temp since that is all I have still.

It read 102.5 and of course my heart dropped into my stomach and I was literally shaking and just trying to be calm for him but shaking out of control while I called the doctors office to inform them and have them inform me of what to do next…

While waiting for a call I got a cool rag and placed it on his head…

His heart was RACING in his chest and this scared me more than anything…

The doctor inally called and comforted me some telling me to give him tylenol every 4 hours and to just monintor him for now and that unless it reached 104 not to go to the ER where he would inevitably be exposed to more…

THANKFULLY at 2:30 am when I checked his temp again after having given his first dose of tylenol his temp dropped to 101.7

I kept the rag down by his feet while he slept and up by his head trying to cool him off and just after 3am went to sleep beside him and hoped for the best while worrying about all the worst naturally.

This morning he woke up happy as always… He heard an airplane and was telling me about it and then asked me to please turn on the tv…He is sooo sweet.

I checked his temp again and it was 100.7 this morning…I gave him more tylenol and he is up playing and happy and I am just soo thankful that it did not get worse and hopeful that he keeps getting better from here…

He will be 20 months old in a few days and he has avoided illness this long…I knew there would come a day he like any child would get sick but I was not prepared for how it would freak me out soooo badly…I was sooo scared and still am nervous about it…

I love my baby soo much.