Delia is still sick

[pegkerr]

Her fever got up to 105 yesterday. Today it was over 102.

Fortunately, we found a friend who could drive Fiona to camp today for us, so we didn't have to take this sick little girl out on a four hour there and back car trip.

There is no doubt that this is getting really, really old. For one thing, it cancels our plan to go to my sister's tonight for the dinner to say goodby to my parents, who are about to leave town again.

She's watched movies and played computer games, but these amusements are beginning to pall. Just now she was crying because she's so bored and unhappy about being trapped at home. If you have any suggestions for cheering a little girl who has been sick with a fever over 102 for three days, send 'em along.

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[jemyl.livejournal.com]

When I was sick, my mom used to play chinese checkers with me or dominoes. I seem to remembe that is also when I learned to play gin rummy. If she is too young for that, there is always old maid ( use a regular deck or two decks and just use the joker as the old maid) Cards get matched by color and number for the regular deck and exact matches for two decks.)
I also had, and actually bought some about four years ago so that I have them for my grandkids, some little wooden diamond and triangle shaped tiles with which I made all kinds of designs. I am sure you have some typing paper on hand. Take a pencil or a black marker and draw a big old squiggle with lots of interlocking and overlapping and then give it to Delia with a box of crayons and let her color in the boxes created to make a stained glass window -- kind of like the expensive ones you see in stores. You can also start with an identifiable(sic) shape such as a butterfly and then make the criss crosses or squiggle designs in the middle to create lots of panes as in stained glass. You could even make one pattern and throw it through your FAX copier a couple of times so that she can try doing a couple of different designs or colors. The trick is to make the "panes" age appropriate in size so that she doesn't get frustrated and yet make them interlocking enough that she doesn't get bored. She could also do one of her own covering a whole sheet of paper and then make it into a paper airplane.

If you have dolls and stuffed animals about, she could be given one or two and then could make up a story about them for you. You could record her story on tape, if you have a tape recorder, transcribe it on your computer to a book, but leave large spaces open so that she can illustrate it with her own drawings or with pictures you two set up of the "subjects" of the story and then take with the digital camera and add to the story. You can later velobind it into her very own first book as an author!
If you crochet and have a big hook and some old yarn, now would be a good time for her to learn to chain stitch and she can make a yarn garland for a holiday decoration ---- tree if you celebrate Christmas. If you know how and have some beads, yarn and a couple of feathers, she could make a dream catcher by wrapping a cut out round plastic tub lid. Also, a few sticks from outside and some yarn and she can learn to wrap some God's eyes which she could then hang from a large one to make a mobile or place on a short chain stitch rope to make a necklace. I don't know how craftwise you are, but those are a couple of ideas to keep her busy and what I found that was being done in the hospital when Bill was there for his stroke. Good luck and both you and Delia are in my prayers. I hope she gets well very soon. Hugs to you both.