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day 3229: wherein the chickenpox turns into a trip to the hospital! I.
about a week into Odin's Rather Mundane Adventures with Chickenpox, around dinner time he suddenly and very unexpectedly complained of A Very Bad Headache which is Very Unusual for a boy who never gets headaches but not, perhaps so unusual for a boy with chickenpox. but the headache quickly turned from bad to worse and we were left perplexed at the sight of him curled up in a ball on the couch rocking back and forth in pain.
hmmmmm. probably, maybe dehydration, we thought.
we gave him a cool cloth to put on his head and some acetaminophen and then made the mistake of googling "severe headache and chickenpox". OH MY GOD IT MIGHT BE ENCEPHALITIS. or maybe it's just a headache. some sites say to look for other unusual behaviors. ok. while we're looking for other unusual behaviors, he starts nodding off. and not just a little drowsy kind-of nodding off. like, suddenly asleep so hard we have a hard time waking him up. and when we do wake him up he seems a bit disoriented.
weird. and even knowing that it was probably nothing we decided it was worth a quick trip to the emergency clinic at the hospital juuuuuust to make sure we weren't missing something.
turns out, while the clinic staff was nice, they really were not particularly enthused about seeing A Very Contagious Boy and made him wear a mask and asked that he be very conscientious about what he touched while we waited to see a doctor.
day 3229: wherein the chickenpox turns into a trip to the hospital! I.
about a week into Odin's Rather Mundane Adventures with Chickenpox, around dinner time he suddenly and very unexpectedly complained of A Very Bad Headache which is Very Unusual for a boy who never gets headaches but not, perhaps so unusual for a boy with chickenpox. but the headache quickly turned from bad to worse and we were left perplexed at the sight of him curled up in a ball on the couch rocking back and forth in pain.
hmmmmm. probably, maybe dehydration, we thought.
we gave him a cool cloth to put on his head and some acetaminophen and then made the mistake of googling "severe headache and chickenpox". OH MY GOD IT MIGHT BE ENCEPHALITIS. or maybe it's just a headache. some sites say to look for other unusual behaviors. ok. while we're looking for other unusual behaviors, he starts nodding off. and not just a little drowsy kind-of nodding off. like, suddenly asleep so hard we have a hard time waking him up. and when we do wake him up he seems a bit disoriented.
weird. and even knowing that it was probably nothing we decided it was worth a quick trip to the emergency clinic at the hospital juuuuuust to make sure we weren't missing something.
turns out, while the clinic staff was nice, they really were not particularly enthused about seeing A Very Contagious Boy and made him wear a mask and asked that he be very conscientious about what he touched while we waited to see a doctor.