[quote name='Number83']I 100% agree. When we called the hospital and told them they pretty much said, if it isn't 101.5 then don't bring him in. According to the surgeon, the body reacts to trauma by increasing body temperatures, so all the PT he was doing and movement yesterday, it makes sense.
Thats what has us concerned, especially because he's allergic to amoxicillin and they had to give him some other antibiotics.
Fortunately, after the Tylenol and cold compress they recommended, it went down to 99.0 and is holding steady as of when I left for work this morning.
The trick with kids is to get them involved into video games as early as you can (Nos. 84 and 85 were playing as early as they could hold a controller without trying to eat it), up to the point where you can set up a second console in another room and they leave you alone. Especially on World of Warcraft raid night!
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That exactly what the surgeon told us too, that they'll prolly just stick him with an IV and give him Tylenol and "make him wait until I get done my round of golf tomorrow" (He was kidding, of course...but I wonder). He said if it's still high to bring him back, but fortunately it seems to have come down.
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Glad to hear he's feeling better. When they give you a specific of "101.5" they mean "101.5" and anything less, though it seems significant, is actually insignificant. My mom had a total hip replacement a year and a half ago and since I was unemployed at the time, I was her primary caregiver. They kept her an extra day because she had a fever, turns out the urinary catheter had caused a bladder infection, something totally unrelated to the hip, and could've been better managed at home than in the hospital, but they didn't know what the infection was at first, so they erred on the side of caution.
They have those specific landmarks based on hundreds of thousands of patients and they always err on the side of caution. Even 101.5 could be considered relatively "low" after that type of surgery, but with kids they don't mess around.