Naptime Blog

My poor son is teething like crazy! There’s a total of about 5 teeth all coming in at once. I feel so bad for him and wish I could take his pain away! In addition to the grumpiness he’s had from dealing with that, he also started to run a fever since Friday morning. While there are a lot of people who say fever is not associated with teething, there are also a lot who say it does have a link. Either way, fevers worry me. We gave him ibuprofen and that brought it down for a little.

After his naps, he was just burning up. We continued with the recommended dosage throughout the night and all day Saturday. The highest his fever went was around 102.7. During this, he has constantly hit his lower cheeks, where the teeth are erupting and hitting his ears and not eating very well at all. We have to go up North for Christmas on Wednesday so I decided on Sunday to take him to the doctor just to make sure he didn’t have an ear infection. I walk in to the surprisingly super empty waiting room and get into an exam room within 5 minutes. The doctor comes in about 2 minutes later. He sits down and asks me the basics : “Vomiting? Diarreah? Coughing?” All to which I answered, “No.” The doctor says, word for word ” I am willing to bet money that your kid has Roseola without even examining him.” I ask what that is and he explains it to me, in an odd manner. I kind of felt like I was being talked down to or that because it was my first child, I must be completely clueless. He says “Yeah in about 2 days he’s going to be covered head to toe in a rash, but you can’t do anything about it like giving him benadryl, it won’t work. You may see his temperature go to 105, but that’s caused by the Roseola, so don’t worry - its not like a temp that high can cause mental retardation.”

I was so stunned by the lack of “bedside manner” this doctor had, especially talking to a first time mother who, of course, would worry if I ever saw a temp that high! We leave, I call my mom freaking out about this guy and how could he diagnose my child by looking at him. My son doesn’t “look” sick…..but then today, he sure got that rash the doctor talked about, all on his tummy. The doctor even said “when your son gets that rash, you’re going to think to yourself that I must be a psychic.” Well, I cannot type here the thoughts I had to myself
but it sure wasn’t that!

Half of me is grateful that I took him so that I was aware this was a possibility in Dr. Crazy’s mind, and the other half is still in shock by how I was talked to. Hopefully the rash will be all gone by Wednesday morning for our trip and supposedly, this is quite common in children his age group. I just hope he feels better by then!

Krystle