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First Aid: Dealing With a Fever

A fever means your body is trying to fight an infection. If you have a fever, you may feel: Warm or hot — but often without sweat. Chills. The temperature inside your body can be very different from the temperature in the room! Achy. When I have a fever, my joints ache. For other people, the ache may be all over or only in certain places. Headachy. A fever almost always comes with a headache for me! Fuzzy-headed or easily distracted. Treating a fever doesn’t have to be complicated. Here are some things you can do at home to treat … Continue reading →

Life With an Epileptic Child

After the first convulsive seizure and our first cluster seizure we were beginning to wonder if this was how our life was going to be from now on. We wondered if this kept up what his life would be when he got older. Would he be able to get his license when he got older? Would he get married and have kids? He was still very young, not even four and he was having to go get valium in his behind to stop seizures. Now this was not quite what I pictured when I thought of our family but this … Continue reading →

Swine Flu and Fear: the Doctor’s Verdict

Yesterday, I had swine flu on my mind — I’ve been running a low-grade temperature since Wednesday, and was worried that it was an indicator of something serious. I decided yesterday that if I still had a fever today (Saturday), I’d go to the local walk-in clinic. I woke up this morning still feeling that old familiar body ache and headache. A check of the digital thermometer showed that sure enough, I was still running a fever. Off to the clinic I went! There was a big sign on the door saying that if a patient was experiencing a cough … Continue reading →

Coping With Holiday and Vacation Illnesses

When my kids were younger, it seemed we never had a vacation or holiday without at least one of them getting sick. There were fevers on camping trips and cross-country drives, colds over Christmas and Easter break, and just about any time we planned a “get-away” someone got sick. Often several someones got sick. What is it about holidays and vacations that seem to set the stage for family illnesses? There always seemed to be two parts to dealing with the holiday and vacation illnesses—one was the attempt to prevent them, and the other was how to cope and take … Continue reading →