Both of my boys woke up sick this morning. It started with Dash feeling warm, and being as whiny as ever. I took his temp, and it was 102. So back to bed he went. And then poor little Scout started saying his eyes hurt by the middle of the day. Soon after he had a 101.2 temp. Good thing Nurse Navy and Mommy took over. We took temps, made food, handed over the remote, made sick beds, etc.
At the end of our shift together, we talked about our two patients.
Patient 1 was as good as gold.
He never asked for anything, and just kept staying upbeat through chills and hot flashes.
He would try to be part of what was going on in the household, and before we knew it he was gone.
He kept ending up in different beds throughout the house back asleep.
The few times he could bear to eat, he asked for toast with butter and honey.
He would eat half, go back to bed, and wake up later to finish it off.
His constant rest had him feeling a bit better by nightfall.
And the next morning, he was all better.
So good, that he was up at 6:00am, got himself bathed and dressed, and came to find me to tell me he was ready for the day!
Clearly, he was sick of being cooped up!
Patient 2 left lots of room for improvement.
He drank like a camel all day long, and the second he was finished with his Gatorade, he demanded more.
He whined about EVERYTHING!
He threw a few tantrums, but even when sick, Mama doesn’t do tantrums.
His saving grace was that he went to sleep without a fight.
But when he was up again, he had a torrential tantrum when the “Blue IPad” was out of batteries.
I plugged it in to charge it, and five minutes later, he found it and pulled it out to play with it again.
Then ten minutes later — when the batteries were out again….you guessed it!
Tantrum central.
When night time came, Nurse Navy and I were thrilled to get him to bed.
Good thing he went happily, and slept like a champ throughout the night.
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The moral of this story….
Scout is uncommonly good for a sick male.
Dash is right there with the rest of all males.
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