A Night At The Hospital

Baby Girl,

Well unfortunately you have now had your first visit to the hospital....

At the end of February you were running a fever that we couldn't seem to get rid of.  It started out low grade (99.5ish) through the weekend and then increased to 100.0 - 101.0 into the beginning of the week.  Last time you had a fever (when you got your 2 month shots) the doctor's office told me not to worry about it until it was over 100.4.  So of course the second it got to 100.5 I was calling!!  The doctor's office was actually concerned that you were running a fever and decided I should bring you in for a check-up.  When we got to the doctor's office your temperature was only 99.7.  After talking with the doctor he wanted to give you a RSV/Flu test.  I thought you just had an ear infection, but your ears looked fine.  While waiting on the results of the RSV/Flu test the doctor informed me that if your test came back negative it would result in us having to go to the hospital to have additional tests run.  Of course, this test came back negative so we were off to the hospital.  Because you weren't quite three months yet, the doctor felt it was important to figure out why your temperature was running this high.

Once we arrived at the hospital your temperature had gotten to 100.7.  The nurses were fantastic with you.  You weighed 11 lbs. 10 oz!  The first thing they decided to do was take a chest x-ray to check for pneumonia.  I got to go with you back to the x-ray room.  However, once I got back there I realized I was going to be the one to hold you down while they took the x-rays.  I did not like being in this position.  You screamed and did not like this either!! Once we got back to the room, it only got worse.  They had to put a catheter in you to check for an infection.  They realized once they started this procedure your girl parts had closed up and they would have to re-open it.  This was pitiful!!!!  You screamed and cried.  It made me so sad to see them hurting you.  After this, they decided to take blood to check for anything else.  It took two tries to retrieve blood and I think this was the worst of all.  While trying to get blood they gave me this sugar water to put on your paci.  You did like this for the first few seconds, but then quickly went back to realizing they were hurting you!  We had to wait 45 minutes for these tests results.  When they came back they informed us they would need to take MORE BLOOD!!!  This meant a lot more sugar water and tears.  Another hour passed and the results were in....they found NOTHING!!  They decided to do a culture on your blood and would get back with us on the results.  They did this because the first blood they took produced strange results and the second time they were completely normal.  It would take us 5 days to get these results.  So after a very LONG day with a lot of screams and tears we were on our way home.  You got a lot of love that night and the next day!!

This is a picture of you after you had your second round of blood drawn.  They decided to put an IV in you to give you some fluids and incase we ended up being admitted.

Love,
Mommy

P.S. 5 days later.....NOTHING!! They have no idea what was causing your fever.