A Light at the End of the Tunnel, or is that a Train?

Sorry, I messed up the HTML, so the site was blank for the last few days.

So, my late night of nursing activities turned into a scary late night of nursing activities. Between 3 and 4PM Tues afternoon, Cheryl took some Tylenol because she could feel the beginning of a fever onset. All through the evening, her temperature hung around 101. By 9:30, after the critters went to bed, she shot up to 103. And started vomiting. And being as quick on my feet as I am, I figured out that vomiting means she can't take the Tylenol, which means no medical intervention until I can get her stomach calmed down, which means I needed an old fashioned method to bring down the fever.

Amazing what you can find on the internet. The Mayo clinic had some good common sense advice on bringing down a fever:

1. Lukewarm rub-downs, not cold (which causes the person to shiver and drives the temperature up),
   
2. Have them drink as much cool fluids as they will tolerate, and
   
3. Don't let them bundle up if they have the chills (see 1 above).

I skipped the holoistic sites (paper towels soaked in egg whites and wrapped around you feet seemed a little weird to me), and followed the advice of the good doctors at the Mayo clinic. It took about 2 hours at the 103 range to get her fever to break, and over the next 2 hours get it down to a manageable temperature, and remove the naseua to get in the medicine. The whole incident lasted until 2:30AM before I could relax and get some sleep.

The good news, is that the fever seems to have broken, and she's up and moving about (slowly), but we expect her to get stronger each day.

Until we start over next week. Hopefully, this time, without a virus.