Almost immediately after publishing the post last night, our lives took a dive for the worse. I went in to get some sleep and Levi was restless and really hot. I mean really hot. Since then he has been somewhere between 101F and 105F depending on when his medication was given last. His temperature has never been normal. About a half an hour after that and before I really went to sleep, he started into delirium. He was scared and angry and yelling out and never recognized that I was beside him. He called out for me over and over. It was heart wrenching. It is hard to feel that he desperately needs you but that he can't recognise you. Eventually I managed to wake him up completely and he snapped back to being him. Now of course he was sick and hot but really wide awake. We watched 'Ice Age' together at 1am in the morning. He sweated through the night. We both got very fragmented sleep. Naturally we didn't make swimming. In fact we won't make school/work tomorrow. Pretty much, this is what we did today:
This was taken with my phone, so the image is pretty bad but this was it. He either cooked while he slept on my lap or he cooked and watched TV. I took him to the doctor this morning and he has started antibiotics, more as a precaution against secondary infection, than thinking this is really bacterial. He went to bed hot, so I suspect that tonight may well be bad again. I gave him a tepid shower tonight and tucked him in. We shall see!!
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