More Sickness!

Yesterday, Sam told me her stomach was hurting, but she didn't really act any different so I did not pay much attention.  This morning, she complained of a headache, sore throat and being so cold.  When we checked her temperature, she was up to 104 degrees.  I gave her tylenol and she has slept some.  She says she is feeling a little better, but I keep checking her temp and it hasn't gotten below 101.  So now she also has ibuprofen on board and we'll see what happens.  She is very concerned about being sick, though, because the other day she got wet with our secondary water. 

Because of Sam's immune system being suppressed, we have many things we have to watch for and avoid; secondary water being one of them becuase it could carry certain bugs and germs that wouldn't hurt a healthy person, but could have devastating effects on Sam.  She always tries to push things as far as possible and the other night while I was watering the lawn, she got really close to the sprinklers but swore to me that she did not get wet.  Later that night, she asked me what could happen if she did get wet in the sprinklers.  So I was very honest with her and told her worst case scenario she could get really sick and die.  At bedtime she came into my room and said she was really scard to go to sleep.  When I asked why, she admitted to getting a few spinkles of water on her arms and now she was afraid she wouldn't wake up if she went to sleep. 

I felt really guilty for scarying her so bad, but I really hope she gets the severity of her situation and realizes that she needs to do what we say and believe what we tell her.  I got her calmed down and told her that we would be able to see that she was getting sick and that she would okay.  She did finally fall asleep and in the morning told me that she believed me. 

Well, now she is sick and she is pretty nervous.  If Bubba hadn't been sick over the weekend, I would probably really worried too.  But for now, we'll just keep on eye her and maybe take her the doctor if the fever doesn't get better.