Last night Madelyn started running a temperature. It was 100.1 so we called the pediatrician and they had us take her to Children's Mercy hospital. When we got there they took us to a private room since Madelyn is an infant and they didn't want her around all the sick children. They checked her out and monitored her fever. Once it went down they sent us home and told us to monitor it hourly and to make an appointment with our pediatrician today. Of course right before we were discharged the doctor came in to look her over and take her temperature one last time and Madelyn started pooping. Well she doen't go that often so when she does it is quite an ordeal and takes a long time. The doctor waited around for a while but after three diapers and all the wipes we had she decided to come back :) It added an additional 45 minutes to our hospital stay............what great timing she had :)
This morning her fever was 100 so we went to the pediatrician today at 2:00. Dr. Farrel looked her over, took her temperature and decided to do blood work and urine tests. It broke my heart when they took blood and used a catheter to get urine out of her. Thank goodness Jim was there because she has never cried so hard. So far everything has come back good and they think she has virus. Her throat is pretty red and there is a virus going around that consists of sore throat, sores in the mouth/throat and fever. Dr. Farrel wants us to continue monitoring her temperature but is pretty sure that she has this virus that has been going around our community. She said it just needs to run its course. If her fever hits 100.4 we have a # to call the doctor over the weekend. We were pretty upset about her being sick but the pediatrician calmed our nerves!
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