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I am frazzled and just exhausted. I woke up this morning at around 2am, about an hour after I finally got to sleep, because Mara was crying. I went to check on her and she was burning up. I took her temp and it was 105 and she never stopped whimpering, not even when she was so sound asleep she was snoring. I took her to the ER.
She was fine yesterday morning, but at 1:00 I got a call to go pick her up from school because she wasn't feeling well. When we got home her fever was about 100, so..not too bad. She said her stomach hurt and I was thinking she was coming down with a stomach bug of some sort.
She ate okay last night and after some Advil was acting pretty much close to normal, not even too grumpy. By bedtime she was pretty whiney, but I got her down okay.
Anyway...ER at 2 am. They stripped her out of her clothes and took her blanket away to bring her fever down. That did not go over so well. She screamed and cried so much her temp was actually going up. They gave her some Tylenol and did a urinalysis and blood work. She's never had blood drawn before and she was feeling horrid and it was the middle of the night, so needless to say, she didn't handle it well. The ended up having to strap her arm to a board and it took three people to hold her down. So. NOT. Fun.
Then they thought it might be appendicitis, so they did an ultrasound, which she also did not like because it hurt her stomach when they pushed on it, but they didn't see anything. So, they're saying UTI and kidney infection, but I have to keep an eye on her. They gave her two IV bags to hydrate her.
Long story short...but not, we got back home @12:30. They wanted to keep her, but I talked to the doctor and they let me take her home because I'm still current on all my paramedic certs. She's on some massive antibiotics dosage and advil for the pain. They are worried about bacterial resistance, but she can't take a lot of the stronger drugs until she's 12 or older. I have to take her back in on Monday for a recheck. If she starts vomiting or stops eating I have to take her back and they'll keep her at least until Monday morning.
So tired and yet...can't calm enough to sleep. She's tucked into a nest of blankets on the sofa with Scooby Doo playing. She looks like absolute shit.
She was fine yesterday morning, but at 1:00 I got a call to go pick her up from school because she wasn't feeling well. When we got home her fever was about 100, so..not too bad. She said her stomach hurt and I was thinking she was coming down with a stomach bug of some sort.
She ate okay last night and after some Advil was acting pretty much close to normal, not even too grumpy. By bedtime she was pretty whiney, but I got her down okay.
Anyway...ER at 2 am. They stripped her out of her clothes and took her blanket away to bring her fever down. That did not go over so well. She screamed and cried so much her temp was actually going up. They gave her some Tylenol and did a urinalysis and blood work. She's never had blood drawn before and she was feeling horrid and it was the middle of the night, so needless to say, she didn't handle it well. The ended up having to strap her arm to a board and it took three people to hold her down. So. NOT. Fun.
Then they thought it might be appendicitis, so they did an ultrasound, which she also did not like because it hurt her stomach when they pushed on it, but they didn't see anything. So, they're saying UTI and kidney infection, but I have to keep an eye on her. They gave her two IV bags to hydrate her.
Long story short...but not, we got back home @12:30. They wanted to keep her, but I talked to the doctor and they let me take her home because I'm still current on all my paramedic certs. She's on some massive antibiotics dosage and advil for the pain. They are worried about bacterial resistance, but she can't take a lot of the stronger drugs until she's 12 or older. I have to take her back in on Monday for a recheck. If she starts vomiting or stops eating I have to take her back and they'll keep her at least until Monday morning.
So tired and yet...can't calm enough to sleep. She's tucked into a nest of blankets on the sofa with Scooby Doo playing. She looks like absolute shit.