Well everyone Lachlan woke at 9pm tonight as his temp peaked again at 39.1, gave him panadol immediately he was absolutely boiling. Then he started convulsing. Scariest thing I have ever seen and we had no idea what to do! Only lastest a minute but it was the longest minute of our lives. The ambulance came and took us to Emerald an hour away and when we arrived his temp was still 38.3 degrees. We waited to see a doc and sure enough my boy has tonsilitis. It's funny how you put everything down to teething, he has been grumpy for days now and not eating well again and it was his god dam tonsils grrr.... if only he could tell me. But that convulsion I have never seen anything like it, he went all stiff, as red as you could possibly imagine in the face with this terrible terrible expression and he started frothing at the mouth. A mothers worst nightmare. Wade had one as a baby so I knew a little about them in that you had to try to drop their temp, but not too fast. Wade went blue he stopped breathing, they had to hold his tongue and everything so Iam glad Lachlan was not that bad, but gee a terrifying situation all the same. I remember Wade's mum saying that they put him in a cold bath, but the emergency line said no, just wet washers, but Lachlan wouldn't let us put one near him. The doc also told me 2nite that you can let it go down too dramatically too as that is a disaster too and the shivering can also make it peak again. Anyway we have antibiotics and it is now 1am and I am very very tired. We will probably leave late 2morrow arve now if Lachlan is ok. What a nite, ni ni everyone.
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