In Sickness

Levi on the couch

This morning was a hot one. Oh the weather was horrible and cold and windy enough to blow away the car, but inside Levi was hot!. He woke with a fever of about 102 and after that it just climbed and he got floppy and snuggly the way that kids do when they feel bad. The first inkling that he was sick was first thing in the morning. He came out and I asked if he needed to go to the toilet and he gave me a surprised look, clapped a hand over his mouth and said;

"No, I think I'm going to hurl!"

Things went downhill from there. I called my work and his school and after school care all to cancel our days and then we just snuggled on the couch watching DVDs. Really we did get up once and go out to get Ruby's birthday present but that didn't go well. He wanted to go out, but I had to carry him all the time. He complained of being dizzy and not able to walk, but I think he just had the shivers. Maybe we managed to infect the whole of Brookside Shopping Centre, but who knows!

I don't really like fevers. I do OK with kids throwing up and I do OK with the other end as well. Fevers kind of freak me out. Coughing really freaks me out, but that is another problem. He was up to over 103 by this afternoon and is perhaps settling down a little now. It must be one of those 24 hour things that you get when you are little, that seem to never last less than a week when you get them as adults. He lay most of the day on my chest with his finger in my belly button. Yes he still needs the button when he is sick, or tired.

So tonight he is sleeping soundly and his fever is coming down (I think). I am hoping that tomorrow will be different, but perhaps not so much different, that I have to go to work. It is quite nice to spend a wild windy day, snuggled inside on the couch, knowing that you don't really have to go out if you don't want to. If only Levi didn't have to feel sick to make it a reality!