Nurses, Pediatricians, and POISON CONTROL!

Chase woke up this morning feeling dizzy and burning up . . . 104.3 fever!!! I yelled for Mike to come help me get the ibuprofin and in his half awake state of mind - Mike grabbed the tablespoon medicine cup instead of the teaspoon medicine cup! So . . . Chase was supposed to get 2 teaspoons of ibuprofin and instead got 2 TABLESPOONS (or 6 teaspoons!!).

We called the nurse first, then she had us call the pediatrician, who in turn had us call poison control!! Fortunately - they said he'd be ok but we had to watch for certain things like an even higher fever, uncontrollable vomiting, and convulsions. As long as that didn't happen - we were good and told no more ipuprofin until after 5pm (duhh!!).

Mike felt sooooooo bad!!! The look on his face when he realized what he had done was awful! He kept a watchful eye on Chase while the girls and I went to Palm Sunday service at church. The nurse and poison control have both called a few times to check on things - very nice to know they follow up!

As for Chase - even with 6 teaspoons of ibuprofin - the fever only came down to 99.4 and now is back up in the 102/103 range. Looks like we'll be going to see the pediatrician in the morning!