…But a Not So Nice End…

OK, so last night Carrie went to bed with a fever.  I don’t sleep well when one of the kids is sick.  I’m so intent on listening for one of them needing me that I can barely fall asleep, and when I do I sleep very poorly.  And then sometime in the middle of the night Carrie came in our room and tossed and turned all over the bed.  I don’t quite get how Denis can sleep through that!

Then around 5:30 her fever had spiked to 102.5, so I gave her some Motrin.  Which promptly came back up.  And she was complaining her throat hurt.  So off to the doctor’s for a strep test (thank heavens the office is open on Saturday mornings for situations like this!)  No strep.  Just a virus of some sort.

She’s just been feverish and lethargic all day, watching TV and sleeping on the couch.  Poor, poor baby!  It would be a little bizarre to have to call her in sick on the very first day of school, so I hope she gets better before then.

And I’m exhausted. I think all total I had about 4 hours of sleep, and none of them were consecutive or restful.  But at the same time I’m completely wired, because I drank half a pot of coffee this morning and a coke this afternoon.  Not good.