GAh!

Okay, today is a day for catching up on everything.  The last 36 hours have been a complete emotional roller coaster for me.  I won't go into everything just yet but, let me just say, I am emotionally exhausted.  Being human is hard.  Sometimes I wish I was a robot.  Anyway, in the midst of one crisis last night (for which I was already bawling my eyes out) Tristan came stumbling out of his room and said:"Mom, feel my head, I think I am hot."  Now, I am not one to freak out when my kids get sick and take them to the doctor for every little ache or pain.  And normally when my kids ask if they are hot, I can feel their head and tell whether it is a mild fever or a major fever by feel alone, no thermometer.  Well, as soon as I touched his head I could tell that it was BAD. Like on fire, bad.  I dug out a thermometer and it just kept climbing and climbing all the way up to 104.5!!!!!  FRACK!!  I threw him in the shower, shoved tylenol in his mouth, whipped a cold smoothie with my trusty Ninja, and put an ice pack on his neck when he got out of the shower.  We got it to come down, thank God.  This morning he is hot again so I gave him more meds.  I am going to wait it out a bit and see how it goes with him.  He says his body hurts but, so far, no other real symptoms.  Definitely keeping a close eye on him though because those kind of temps are dangerous.  I worried about him all night too.  Amongst the million other things going on.