Re: OT fevers wasRe: Kindergarteners and Color Theory

Waaaaaaaah! (I don't know how your poor mother lived through it.) Polly

"NightMist" wrote:

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


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