Sage Fever

[Moon]

I am lying here on my bed with my baby girl sitting on my stomach. She is active and smiling. This is a major switch from 2 days ago. wsyyhrhhk,hj , That was Sage tryig to explain things through her typing. I have been feeling down and drained because my angel had a viral infection. Her fever reached to 102.4 . You would have never known she was sick because she was still her excitable self. However when she stopped eating I got worried. I couldnt eat either. I often heard parents say that they can feel when there is something wrong with their child. For example Sept 11th during the terroist attacks my older brother worked at the pentagon and was in the building that got hit. HIs wife was freaking out because she couldnt reach him and was thinking the worst.

My mother was so calm and said hes fine. If he wasnt I would have felt it . No sooner than she said that he walked through the door. I now know what she meant . My daughter feeds of my energy all the time. If Im sad she knows if she is sick I feel it . She wasnt eating, neither was I it seemed as if I felt all that she was feeling. I didnt get a fever but I had the worst migraine for 2 days . I had no energy and was completly sluggish. We took her to the ER last night and It was awful. I was already a mess that day from the MJ memorial . SO being in a hospital was not my idea of a good time. My little lady had a fever by that time of 101 and she was greeting everyone that came into the hospital . She was like hi, how are u? after a while she was screaming Go bye bye! We were there for hours and wasnt even close to getting seen. Then a lady who was homeless came in and reaked of urine and Sage kept getting too close to her cart. After a while we left without getting seen.

Around 2am I went to check on my little mama and she was on fire the fever shot to 104. I panicked then I remembered a friend of mine telling me that if I cut up some potatoes and put it in her pillowcase it will draw the fever out. At that point she already had motirn and the fever was still climbing. So I was up at 230 cutting a white potatoe . I put the slices in her pillowcase. I felt like a crazy fool doing it but u talking to someone who when I was growing dreadlocks and having issues getting them to lock sat in the Sun with egg and honey in my hair because a rasta told me too. in actually I was frying an egg on my head which got stuck in my growing locks which caused me to have cut those pieces but thats another story.


Well I curled up on the floor on her Dora pillows and waited. I kept checking her . Buy 345 am she was cooling down . By morning she was normal temperature. I thought wow Potatoes!!!

I called her doctor anyways and got her an appt. today . She ate a little bit but by the time she got to the doctor her fever was back up to 99. She looked sick at this point. When she was falling asleep in the office so was I . They checked her out and concluded that she had a viral infection that she may have picked up from Daycare.

So I now have her on pedialyte which she hates. But she ate a whole quarter chicken . I was happy about that .
So tomorrow daddy will take over . I been off of work for 2 days taking care of my baby and now Im drained as she is quickly returning to normal. My stepdaughter Candy is here to help me out tonight while daddy is at rehearsal.

WHen your child is in daycare u have to be careful because kids come in there with all types of stuff.
So i have to do something to strengthen her immunity. As for me I am sipping on a cup of chammomile and lavender tea as Sage is taking my shoes off my rack to walk in them and taking my make-up off my dresser trying to put it on . I could get on her for getting into my press powder but Im just happy shes back to herself.

[Miss J]

aw I'm so glad Sage is starting to feel better! I know when my niece or nephew are sick because they just looks so sad! I start to feel for them! They are my heart! I can only imagine when I have my own children how it'll be.

I've never heard anything about potaoes but I'll try it next time...and I would love to hear the story about your locs and eggs...I've heard to put lemon juice and possibly even beer but I've never heard anything about putting eggs in your locs....interesting!

I hope you are feeling better as well! Get lots of rest! :-)

[MuthaWit]

Whew! Nothing worse than seeing your baby sick, Moon. I can surely relate to that. Thank God that Sage is back to rolling on the floor again (Jon Vee put up a funny post saying that Sage "is already rolling on the floor like Moon" LOL). Kids are so resilient. Y'all keep RAWKING!

[Kambui]

So happy to hear that your little one is doing better! I almost feel as if I've known her forever. Your tribe will be in my thoughts...