Jack was up Friday morning at 3am with a temperature and skipped school. He got worse throughout the day topping off at 103.8 as a temperature. He had the chills, was achy and a cough and sore throat. We started to panic wondering if he would be able to have surgery. He couldn’t have any Advil, so we pumped him with Tylenol to keep the fever under control. He took baths, showers, took Tylenol, drank Gatorade by the gallon, and gargled salt water. We even busted out the nebulizer to see if we could get his cough under control.
Nothing seemed to make him comfortable and it seemed like he would be too sick to get his surgery at 11 on Monday. Sunday night at midnight he was still up drinking and taking Tylenol. We had given him some cough medicine and realized that was on the “don’t take before surgery” list giving us even less hope that surgery would happen.
Monday morning at 3am, Jack was up covered in sweat and then again a little while later. He was sleeping on a towel at this point because his sheets were too wet! When he rolled out of bed around 9 and had no fever we called the dr’s office to see what we should do. They said it was ok that he had taken the cold medicine and since he was feeling better they said surgery was happening!
