For the past three days, my daughter has been home from school. She has been under the weather with a low grade temperature and just generally feeling bad. As any parent, I do not like to see my child not feeling good. It makes me feel helpless to make her better since it was just an illness that needed to run its course. I also do not like it when she is not showing very many outward signs of being sick like a cough, sore throat, and a stuffy nose.
When she developed a low grade temperature, I was afraid that it was going to get worse. I like to be able to pinpoint what is actually causing the fever so I know what I need to do other than giving her something to take her fever down. When she was an infant, she became ill with a high fever and when I took her to the hospital they found that she had a kidney infection and was admitted so that they could give her intravenous antibiotics to combat the infection.
She was hospitalized three times within a ten month time period for the same type of infection. When I changed pediatricians, he decided to take aggressive action to prevent this from happening again. The pediatrician decided the best way to keep on top of this problem was to have her urine checked frequently, so if there were an infection, it could be handled before it reached her kidneys.
So for the next couple of years, her urine was checked monthly and anytime she had a temperature without any noticeable reason, I would take her to get checked out. This went on until she was completely potty trained since having a diaper on made her more susceptible to the infections even though she was not left in a wet or dirty diaper for long periods of time.
I am glad that I had found this pediatrician because he was so aggressive with treating her problems. Having a high number of kidney infections, my daughter could have ended up with scar tissue on her kidneys causing more problems later in life. I was very sad when he decided to retire, but that is the way it goes.
Today was my daughter’s third day staying home and I am happy that she has recovered to the point where her old self is recognizable to me. It is a wonderful feeling knowing that she is feeling better and she can go back to school tomorrow. I would like to think that I nursed her back to health even though it was the rest and fluids that were the real reasons she is better. But I know that a little tender loving care is an important aspect of making someone feel better, too.
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Hope your daughter gets well soon!
@swalia Thank you. She is feeling much better now and is back to her old self.
@nakitakona13 Thank you. I try to take care of my children and I do the best I can. I do not want them to suffer from health problems so I try to keep on top of that. I am thankful that they are very healthy all around. It sounds like your wife is a great mom taking care of six children. Glad you have such a nice family.
The mother is in action. She never leaves anything unattended as far as her family members are ill. She always on the alert for anything that her children's health weaken or affected by sickness. She values her children's well-being.
Your situation has reminded me of how my wife is doing her duties and responsibilities to our children. I am just around supporting her. She perfectly knows what is best for our 6 children when they were still young.
The mother is always the mother. God bless for such wonderful job you have had with your family. Your daughter is in good hands because of you.
It's really tough losing a good doctor! I had a GP years ago who retired, and I was never able to replace her with a doctor who came even close to her.
I hope your daughter is feeling better :)
@ruby3881 Thank you. She is feeling much better now. I really liked her pediatrician and am hoping that we will find a good one when we move in a few months. It is hard to find one that your children are comfortable with and one that you like as well.
Mother has always the quality of having TLC (tender loving care). I guess we really need to monitor the children closely if they are sick. Fever is a sign of infection and we need to determine the root cause. I hope she will be fine soon.
I see this is a revived post. Anyway good that I got to read it. Hope your daughter is fit and fine. But you do need to keep a check on her regularly.
You're a great mom! I hope you're daughter will be perfectly fine soon so she can go to school. She probably miss her classmates and teachers.
Its well! She's healed in Jesus' name. Amen
The feeling of having a sick child in the house can be very nerve wrecking especially infants, because you don't know what they are feeling or how to treat them. but am glad that she is better and will be for a long long time in her life.