My Poor Sick Baby Girl
My poor daughter has been sick quite a bit in the last month. I knew that her first year in "school" after being a stay-at-home-baby would be hard on her immune system, but I was impressed at how well we survived the fall semester, and then Christmas vacation came. She came down with a fever the night before Christmas Eve. With all of the doctors offices closed we gave her Tylenol and continued on with Christmas. We are blessed to have a daughter that does not let illness bring her down and other than checking her temp and finding a fever, you normally would never know she were sick at all. The day after Christmas I took her to the doctor, determining a virus was the culprit (isn't it always) we just continued on as before and she recovered by the next weekend.Then again on Jan. 6 she started vomiting and was ill with a stomach bug for about 24 hours. We went back to school on Tuesday and started vomiting again Wednesday. Being the somewhat overbearing first time parent, I took off the day and rushed her to the doctor. I want to believe I am not too paranoid, but vomiting twice in one week, not consecutive bothered me. The doctor diagnosed a post-viral "thing" was going on and we continued on with our week.
Saturday she started complaining that her "butt" and stomach hurt. I took note, gave her some yogurt with probiotics and continued on with our day. However, overnight her fever started and by Sunday morning we were at the pediatric urgent care. They checked her signs of illness and without any visible signs for the high fever they did a catheter to check for a UTI. Talk about a miserable, horrible experience with a child. Anyhow, those test came back negative and we were back in her pediatricians office Monday because the fever was still extremely high. After a flu test, a strep test, and checking for any and all visible signs of sickness, which there were none they sent us home to wait. With Wednesday being the 4th day of fever they called us in to do blood work and while we were at the doctors office her fever broke and a pain pink rash formed. The doctor diagnosed that all of this has been caused by a virus and her blood came back normal, though a bit anemic. We are starting vitamins for that and we are back to school.