The Lying Thermometer

On Saturday (May 16th) Davis had been running a fever of about 101. We kept an eye on it and gave him some Advil at 7:30 pm. At 9:00 pm he woke up fussy and felt so hot that I stripped him down to his diaper and immediately took his temperature. The first 4 readings gave me an error. The next two readings were 106.4 and "HI" (according to the thermometer instructions that means the fever is 107 or higher). So, naturally I panicked and we made an emergency trip to the Urgent Care.

Poor little guy went through the ringer that night...mom waking him up... 6 temperature readings...a cool bath...a drive to urgent care....poking and prodding by the nurse and the doctor...all to find out....OUR THERMOMETER IS BROKEN. Yes, he had a fever, but it was only 101.3...not 106.4. Thank goodness.

It was quite an ordeal but we did get an urgent care t-shirt as a consolation prize!

Here are a few photos from the next day. Still cute as ever.