thanks everyone for your well-wishes... it turns out it was 40 degrees yesterday, and the car is black, parked in the midday sun it was probably 60 dgs inside. we had those reflective window sun shades in front and back but they're useless! now i leave the windows down when parked in public if i can, and yeah...cover the baby seat.

So why did the 13health nurse think it was life threatening? (the emergency doctors wondered that too)... i think it's because the burn as described over the phone was bad enough that it could potentially cause him to go into shock and stop breathing or pass out. they asked if he was blue around the lips, gasping for breath or had gotten very sleepy or passed out. I said no to all, but after he stopped screaming we drove home and he was asleep in the car. thats when they said go immediately to emergency. they said to watch his breathing didn't stop, that his head didnt' indent deeply on the top or that he didn't get really sleepy.