Thursday, April 29, 2010

100 Degrees!!!

Leanne was running a fever late last night, and was feeling unwell. She broke away from her normal routine of sleeping till 4am, and was already crying by midnight. Mummy managed to pacify Leanne, and got her back to sleep. A short while later, Leanne was crying again, and Mummy measured Leanne's temperature, and declared it was 38.3deg, so Daddy and Mummy decided to give the young girl a shot of paracetamol. Several hours later, Leanne was up again, this time, Mummy measured Leanne and the thermometer read 38.8deg, so Daddy duly fetched a shot of ibuprofen. When Daddy came back to the room with the tiny syringe, Mummy screamed out "100 degrees!!!" is sheer paranoia, giving Daddy a real shock. The ibuprofen was hastily administered...

Only today did Mummy confessed that she misread the thermometer temperature, as she had accidentally switched the temperature scale to Fahrenheit instead of Celsius! A 100 degrees indeed...

Despite Mummy's midnight alarm, Leanne is now back to her healthy, cheerful self.

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