Strange Day

Very weird day.

Got Betsy and her teammate up at 8, having already been to the supermarket and the bakers myself. Gave them a big breakfast to set them up for training which I knew would be rainy and cold.

The boys lazed in bed, Al's excuse being he was under the weather.

Took the girls to softball and when we got there Betsy said she had a sore throat and didn't feel great. I went to a chemist and got her some meds. When I got back I realised that today, 'training' meant watching a men's game for an hour and a half in persistent rain. At least they had a few umbrellas so huddled together and stayed quite dry, but it was chilly. I sat in the car.

When they rain became torrential and the grown men took shelter, the coaches took the Under 13's girls out onto a diamond to actually train. I was worried Betsy would get pneumonia as she was already unwell so took her off. She wasn't thrilled but didn't protest so I knew she was ill.

The traffic was very bad and so I ended up taking her directly to her drama rehearsal - the second of three in three days. When I picked her up two hours later she had a croaky bunged up voice and was close to tears because she felt so ill. She flaked out.

So one sofa had ill Al, and the other had ill Betsy. Al was on the mend but Betsy got worse by the hour.
By nine she was shivering and complaining she was freezing, but her temperature was 40.3 (105). We put her in our room under an open window with me fanning her with a sheet and with icepacks on her head and feet, poor thing. All the while she was covered in goosebumps, shivering and begging for a cover, it was horrible.

I called my brother (a nurse) for advice on just how much nurofen I could give her. When I said her temperature was 40.3 I heard the fear in his voice and my stomach hit the floor. Later, I found out he thought I said '43', not '40 point 3'. He said we could give her paracetamol along with nurofen, which gradually did the trick and brought her temperature down to something more reasonable. It took a while but she got there.

Very horrible all round.