Well, this was a fun few days. Long long story short, Gracie's fever came back with a vengeance late Sunday, early Monday. It was 101.1 at 11pm, and after two hours and not being able to bring it below 100.8, even after a dose of Tylenol we called the nurse-on-call for her doctor, and they told us to take her to the ER. By the time we got there of course it had dropped to 99.0, so they just sat us in a room for two hours. When a doctor (stupid lady) finally came in they just said to keep an eye on her temp and bring her back if it went up again and we weren't able to bring it back down.
Well, she kept running a fever all day, spiking to 102.1 at 5pm, but we brought it down quickly with a cool bath and Tylenol. But at 1am Tuesday it was 102.0, and after Tylenol and another bath it was 102.4, so we took her back to the ER. This time she still had a fever when we got there, 100.6, so they put us in a room. Unlike the night before, a doctor (really nice guy) came in within 15 min and said there had been a lot of kids in with the bad flu that night, and he ordered chest xrays and a throat swab. Those came back negative, so he ordered blood work and urine taken. After THAT traumatic experience (it was so sad, they had to hold her down to put in the catheter and IV) the blood work came back negative, but the urine showed an elevated white cell count, so they diagnosed her with a urinary tract infection. They gave her a dose of antibiotics through her IV, monitored how she would react to it for half an hour, and then sent us home with a prescription and instructions to give her Tylenol every 4 hours until the fever lifted and give her medicine every 6 hours. She's very sleepy today after all that excitement early this morning, and the medicine is making her pretty lethargic, but otherwise she's doing fine. Hopefully this medicine works and gets rid of the infection.
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