Tag: Sick kid

  • What causes croup? (Other than pertussis)

    My last post hit the Internet about 30 minutes before midnight, and we were just packing in to go to bed. Clothes loaded into the washer, R (the DH, or dad – not sure if I’ve used his initial before now, but figure I might as well – at least it’s unique in our household)…

  • Sick day #2 (sick kid #2)

    Well, it’s always a bad sign when S is quiet. And it’s very rare. I probably shouldn’t have said to dad yesterday that S never gets sick. And, as with just about everything else, S is exactly opposite to J. Rather than fever, S is hypothermic (measured twice, his highest oral temp was 93.6). S…