103.8

103.8 is the highest Wyatt's temperature has reached today. He woke in the middle of the night with a burnin' hot fever. When it continued to hover around 102 with Tylenol until about noon, I made a doctor's appt. In the doctor's office they got the highest reading. Since he has no other symptoms they ran some blood tests to check for bacterial infections. It was awful. He was slightly dehydrated so it was really hard to get a vein. Both his arms are all bruised up now. The good news is the blood test came back okay so we are just watching him to make sure things don't get worse and keeping him loaded with fluids and Motrin. Probably just a virus. We have determined that his body fights viruses a little differently than most others. Instead of developing cold symptoms and fighting it for several days, his body cooks it out. Greg has the same immune defense. It is just really scary to hold a baby that hot and see him barely be able to keep his eyes open he is so exhausted. He laid on my shoulder all day, dosing in and out of sleep. Poor thing. These types of fevers can be an indication of really serious problems, so I guess we will be going through these blood tests every time this happens until he is about 3 when the risk of bacterial infections are really slim. Better to be on the safe side. No pictures with this post- nobody wants to have their picture taken when they are ill.