it is 3:13 am EST time, fri feb. 8 or 9, i'm not sure right now and don't feel like looking for what date it is. anyway i have been waiting for an hour for the pediatrician on call to call me back. actually it is 3:17 am now and i just called the answering service again who said the doctor on call should call back within about 15 min. and if not to call again. she told me that in the future if i don't hear back within about 15 min. to call them right back. so now it is 3:24 and i just got off the phone with the pediatrician. the answering service lady did also mention she thought the page didn't go through correctly which makes me feel much better that they don't have concerned mothers waiting up at all hours of the night. the pediatrician actually did call right back.
... so here's the story...since tuesday i have been taking care of my sick 4 year old. her temperature had been progressively going down since i got the call from school with her having an under arm temperature of 101. i decided to go to work yesterday (thursday) afternoon because she seemed to be doing great to me with just that lingering fever that was going down. my mom's friend agreed to watch her for me so i could go to work for the afternoon. i went in at 11:30 and left at 5:30 by the time i was getting my daughter ready for bed at 8:30 pm she didn't look very good to me and her temperature was at 99 under the arm. 2 am she wakes up to use the bathroom and she felt like she was burning up: temp of 101.8 under the arm. i'm feeling a little guilty for going to work now. i feel like i needed to have encouraged her to rest and drink fluids more and not be in a rush to get back to work. i guess there's always more we can do... as long as we try to do our best on a day to day basis and everyone is alive and happy at the end of the day, what more can one ask for?

join us next time for some more blog therapy as we move forward on our journey to fabulosity

-Mama