marydell | First visit to the Rehab Institute tomorrow, if someone will quit barfing

We have an appointment first thing in the morning at the Rehab Institute of Chicago's Pediatric Limb Deficiency clinic, to discuss options for a prosthesis! HOORAY! He's finally healthy enough, and has made enough developmental progress, that he may be ready for a limb. Even if he's not, they're going to go over all the options with us, and hopefully also hook us up with a PT/OT in our area. (We initially went through Illinois Early Intervention, who are great, but for various odd reasons it works out to be prohibitively expensive for us. Normally it's a good, affordable option, though, so I recommend checking out your state's early intervention program if you have a young child with a delay).

Anyway, this is very exciting...so exciting, in fact, that Charlie spiked up a 102 degree fever this afternoon, threw up three times early in the evening (once on his mommy), and had a terrifying meltdown with his daddy while mommy was out getting baby tylenol, since the motrin, it does nothing.

His fever came down to 100-ish after he had the tylenol, and the crying stopped once he had apple juice and some cuddles from mom. If he's 100% well by morning, with a good appetite and no fever, we can still make the appointment. It's a possibility, since he's had a mystery fever-from-nowhere before, but I won't call it a likelihood.