Fever

Last Thursday at 4:45, minutes before JW picked X up from daycare, the daycare teachers took his temperature. They informed JW when he arrived that X had a temperature of 100.4, which meant he couldn't return to daycare the next day. We scrambled for backup care and JW grumbled, like he usually does, that several times a day they crank up the heat and make them jump up and down and then take their temperature and send them home. Lately we haven't been able to piece our work schedules together like we usually do, and as a result we have paid approximately $400 for emergency backup care for X in the past few weeks, not to mention the hospital bills.

Yesterday when I went to pick up X they told me, "We took his temperature 10 minutes ago and it was 99." "That's normal," I said. They looked concerned and said, "I don't know... he seems tired." Yeah, he's tired. He's 2 and it's the end of a long day for him. Why are they taking his temperature ten minutes before pickup time anyway?

X has been in his new class for three days and to our knowledge, they have taken his temperature at least once at the end of every day. If this happens again when he's healthy, we're going to need to have a talk.