Random Thoughts Today and Tomorrow

My babies are sick, both of them. Started with a cough. Now it’s a cough and a fever. The older one is also vomiting. The younger one is doing better, maybe because he’s still breastfeeding. 

It’s one of those things where my medical knowledge starts to conflict with everything else in my brain. 

When do I give acetaminophen? Some website say over 100, some say 103. Who came up with the arbitrary number? Didn’t my school give a lecture about how fevers are really not dangerous? 

And then when do I call the doctor? When do I go to the doctor? 

If I hadn’t already done an ER rotation, I would probably be at the doctors. But now that I’ve worked in a ER, I know the kid should be really really sick or else we would be waiting around for hours just to be kicked out. On my ER rotation, I pretty much had to kick out all of the pediatric cases that I saw. 

Now, why isn’t the doctor calling back? 

It’s going to be a couple of long nights…