Graysen's First ER trip

Just a quick update on Graysen! She IS doing okay!

Last night before I put her down I took her temperature. It was 103.2 but that is with the thermometer that rolls across the forehead; which I’ve been told is not the most accurate. But it gives you what you need to know, fever or not. So I gave her some Tylenol and put her down. That day she had been warm but I didn’t think much of it.. she’s been chewing on her fingers and drooling more than usual so my first instinct is teeth. Also she wasn’t eating much yesterday, and ate hardly anything for dinner (and it was even French fries and chicken!!) At midnight she woke up crying, it had been four hours so I went ahead and gave her more Tylenol, I didn’t give her Motrin because she has to take it with milk and she wasn’t drinking anything so I didn’t even try. She woke up again at three and didn’t even want me to touch her, she kept saying “owe, owe, me hot momma”. Sure enough she felt even hotter, but it hadn’t been four hours yet so I didn’t want to give her more medicine. I took her temperature and I had her at 104.4. So of course me… I wake Brandon up and tell him I’m going to take her to the ER.. I’d rather be safe than sorry and if her fever is STILL going UP while taking Tylenol then there could be something wrong, and I don’t like to chance anything.

First of all I wanted to smack the receptionist. He says “well her fever obviously went up because the Tylenol wore off, you just give her more..” FIRST OFF SIR…. I’m not going to CHANCE OD’ing my child because I THINK the reason for the increase of the fever is that the Tylenol wore off, when it’s still an hour away from giving her another dose according to the least amount of hours between doses. Don’t make me feel stupid for bringing in my child just to MAKE SURE everything is okay. Grrr.. (okay vented, thanks!)

Anyway they took a rectal temperature and she was at 104.1 there, so obviously mine at home isn’t THAT far off! They tried to give her more Tylenol but she threw up most of it. After a chest X-ray and a urine sample from a catheter, she does not have pneumonia (that was an obvious no) or a UTI. Therefore they suggest that she has a virus. Something has been going around this area with kids so they said to just watch her and try to keep the fever down as much as I can. I asked about teeth and they said it could be a factor but not for all of it. Therefore we just need to sit around and hope it doesn’t get worse!

When we left the hospital her fever had dropped to 101.4 which is much better, the fever is going the right way, DOWN! We are home now and she seems to be doing fine! I’m going to try and get more medicine in her in a little bit and see if she will lay down for an early nap, but otherwise it was a long night in the ER, just to make sure she was okay!