OT fevers wasRe: Kindergarteners and Color Theory

On Wed, 02 Nov 2005 23:09:11 GMT, "Polly Esther"
<misterclean@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>I'm so relieved to see you appearing here and apparently with good sense.
>Your temp of 105° was a serious concern to me. You were pretty close to
>frying your brain, you know. Or are you one of those that can do that over
>something minor and with no ill effects? Polly

I'm one of those people who have high temperatures over any little
virus or bacteria.
I started that when I was very very small. In fact my earliest
memories are of being very cold and people dressed like doctors and
nurses doing wicked things to make me colder. Putting me in tubs of
ice, splashing cold water on me, stuff like that.
I was supposed to be at least severely brain damaged several times as
a child. I think my mom told me that my highest fever temperature was
108 and I was definitely supposed to be dead. I guess that explains
my wardrobe (vampire chic).

My mom used to wait to take me to the doctor until my temperature
stayed over 104 for more than 24 hours or hit 106. DH freaks out when
I top 102.
It gets annoying sometimes, I'm sick, I want asprin, lots to drink,
and bed, and he is trying to drag me out the door and up the hill to
the clinic. Now the clinic is only a quarter mile from the house, but
more than half of that is a steep hill. The flippin driveway has a
switchback for heavens sake! I do not want to climb a hill like that
when I am sick. period. end of story. I do go if the fever is
prolonged, and have told him that if it hits more than 105.5 that he
should drag me there one way or another, but this trying to make me
mountain climb over every little bit of temperature, geez!
My Halloween fever lasted about 6 hours, went from normal to 105 in
the first hour, held steady for about the next 4 and then it came down
in that last hour, and it was all after hours for both the clinic and
the emergency room so he didn't have a chance to try and drag me off.

NightMist
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"To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge
it, requires brains." -Mary Pettibone Poole
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