regular sick or covid?

With Gordy now in school, he's exposed to so many more things (good and bad) than he's ever been before.  Some of those things are sicknesses which is a little scary during covid since he's not eligible to be vaccinated yet.  Yesterday afternoon, he spiked a fever of 103, had a tender/painful belly, and his eyes burned.  Pre-covid, we'd have assumed it was just the flu and we'd have treated him with motrin/tylenol, fluids, rest, and cuddles.  But, with covid running around and so many unvaccinated idiots in our area, we can't help but worry that he may have it.  

So, we called the doctor to get their opinion.  The regular doctor was a bit worried about his tender belly, so she forwarded me onto the ER doctor for another opinion.  Sadly, it was just our luck that Todd's favorite (not!) local moron doctor happened to be the ER doctor dolling out advice.  He was pretty adamant that we bring Gordy to the ER which we took to mean that we should keep him home.  (I'm actually somewhat convinced that he wanted us to bring Gordy in so he could hang out with Todd.)  

Ultimately, we are happy with our decision to keep him home.  Not only do we not like going to hospitals, our HI hospitals are very full with covid patients and it seems like a good idea to avoid them, if possible.  Plus, his tender tummy seemed to go away with the motrin along with his temperature.

Gordy's temperature spiked again last night at about 3am.  So after a throw-up, a dose of medicine, a cracker and some water, we got his temp back down and him back to sleep.  He's been pretty normal so far this morning - ate breakfast, peed, and was up and walking around a little.  It's almost "more medicine time" and we are noticing him slowing down a bit more.  His temp is back up to 101.5 and he's seeming a little lethargic.  So, we'll just keep giving him motrin, fluids, and cuddles.  

We also will likely go do a test at some point today to check for covid. I guess there's not a whole lot we would be doing differently if he did have covid, but we'd want to make sure that we really isolated him and ourselves from others and, we'd be on the looking for any long lasting symptoms.  If he does have covid, at least he'll have some immune protection for the future.