The joy of a cool forehead
When I went to feed Avery early this morning, I picked her up, pressed my lips against her and felt something wonderful: a cool forehead. This coolness represented a sharp contrast to what I felt too many times this past week or so; for days, I kept picking her up and expecting her fever to be gone – but her head, sadly, was always hot.
Feeling her this morning filled me with a sense of relief: she’s finally (almost) better. And it made me think about how sick she was – something I didn’t really realize until the last day or two. As her medicine started to kick in and she started to improve, she began acting more like herself – and her smiling, laughing, and scooting around was quite different from the behavior she exhibited last Friday onward. As Q commented the other day, Zoe never got this sick as an infant – so this was new, and sad, territory for us as parents.
The truth is that there’s nothing more sad (and, at times, scary) than the sight of a miserable, lethargic baby. It’s been a long 10 days for us all, and we’re all still bummed about having to miss our trip to WI, but I’m just glad Avery is kicking this thing good-bye!
-M
December 27th, 2009 16:07
Hooray…..hooray……I did not realize that until now she still had some fever. I thought the fever was gone few days ago, specially when you went out on Xmas day. Did Avery go out too?
Nevertheless, we are so relieved to hear that she is on the mend now.
December 27th, 2009 18:24
I didn’t mean to be confusing. The fever actually has been gone for many days – but her cool forehead just made me reflect on her illness.