The Rest (and finally the end) of the Fever!

Lily's fever that had started on Thursday had still not let up by Tuesday morning. It had been a long 4 and a half days. She hardly ate anything, didn't sleep well and even skipped a few naps which blew my mind since she should have been SO tired! We watched a lot of Disney Channel, DVDs and my wedding video over and over. (She LOVES watching the wedding video).

I had been in contact with her doctor on Monday and he told me to just keep waiting it out, but by Tuesday afternoon, he said to come in again for another check up. Above are photos of her from Tuesday morning looking miserable and below, Tuesday around 11am. She LOVES going to the the doctor's office.

Doctor Chad did all the regular checks. Ears looked good. Throat looked good. Chest sounded great. Lymph nodes felt normal. No abdominal pain. No pain anywhere. Nothing. But he was as frustrated as I was with the ongoing fever. So instead of just sending us home and telling us to wait it out some more, he started running tests. He did a flu test -- negative. Strep test was negative. He took blood and ran a cell count test. Thankfully, all her cell counts were within normal range and looked good. It was kinda funny -- Lily did SO good when the nurse came in to take blood. It was a finger prick and he squeezed and squeeze her little finger and actually got out a lot of blood. I was so proud of her. She sat still and was unbelievably cooperative. But when he got all the blood he needed and went to put on a band-aid, she freaked out! She was screaming and crying over the band-aid. It was kinda funny since it was so ridiculous!

Snuggling up to Mommy after the bad nurse actually tried to put a band-aid on her finger. So traumatic.

The only other thing the doctor could think of was to have her get a chest x-ray. Lily wasn't really coughing, except a few times from post nasal drip. The cough didn't come from her chest and he said he chest sounded great. But Dr Chad said sometimes pneumonia can be tricky, so if we wanted to do a chest x-ray just to see, we could go next door to the hospital and get one done. I figured we were already there and just to have peace of mind, we'd run all the tests. So off to the hospital we went.

Showing off that infamous band-aid.

Posing with her hospital bracelet.

Again, Lily did SO well for the x-rays. She was perfectly still and such a good girl. The hospital was pretty quick and efficient and we heard back from the doctor shortly after we got home. Apparently, her lungs were clear of all the normal bad signs of pneumonia, but there some signs that may have been the beginning of atypical or walking pneumonia. The doctor wasn't 100% sure it was atypical pneumonia, but there was a chance. So he gave us the option of trying antibiotics which would help if this was the case, but would not make a difference if it was still just a nasty virus. Since I was beyond tired of waiting it out --we opted to start her on the antibiotics and headed to Wal Greens asap to pick up her prescription. . . .

... and we also picked up a Disney Princess lap table filled with markers, crayons and art supplies. :) Poor sick baby needed a treat. This was the perfect buy since it kept her occupied for days and kept her still and calm on the couch!

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Wednesday afternoon Lily was still the same. She was very sad to have missed a week of school already -- not to mention her first soccer game, soccer practice, dance class and we had to cancel our get together with Matthew, Carys, Ben and Rhiannon for dinner and the first Dallas Cowboys game. When I asked her how she felt about this she said, "I feel SO bad for all my friends. They are all SO sad and miss me SO much." The fever did not have any affect on her self esteem! But she was kinda right. Everyone was missing her a lot. Makayla felt so bad that Lily was still sick that she drew her a picture and dropped it off after school with balloons. It was so sweet.

Lily had a lot of fun with the balloons and apparently had a lot of pent up aggression since she was loving just punching them!

Finally Wednesday evening her fever seemed to break. But since it was so close to bedtime I still gave her fever reducers to get through the night since I didn't want her temps to spike back up while she was asleep. But I haven't had to give her anymore ibuprofen or Tylenol since Wednesday night! That is 2 and a half days fever free!!!! Of course, we'll never know if the antibiotics worked or if the virus finally ran its course. But whatever. It is done.

Thursday and Friday, we stayed home and rested just to make sure it was really all clear. More Disney Channel, Wedding videos and Candy Land.

We even took a trip to Disneyland! :) She loves playing with the map we got last time we were there. She has the whole park memorized. So we pretended the house was Disneyland and met the Princesses, Mickey Mouse, rode on Dumbo, Winnie the Pooh, "the pirate ride", the train and the boats. It was interesting to see what stood out to her after our trip there back in January.

By Friday afternoon. She was completely back to normal and very feisty. I think the week in the house was really getting to her. She decided to test her boundaries to see what she could get away with after being sick. Sadly, she learned that it was not that much. She had declared -- rather boldly -- that she was not going to nap and not going to listen to me anymore. Oh really? Of course she got in trouble and that made everything worse. It turned into total hysterics and I couldn't get a diaper on her or pajamas for a nap. So, I just had to toss her into her bed as she was . . . .

She is not asleep. She is still screaming. After about 35 minutes of this crap, I got her dressed and down for bed. At least after such an exhausting tantrum she fell right to sleep and finally took a decent nap! She woke up still in trouble -- no more TV and no goldfish crackers (which is like taking away oxygen for her) and was very very sorry. I should get at least one nice day from her before she decides to test me again. At least things are finally back to normal! :)

(PS -- I like the white little buns. Her tan lines are pretty bold. I took some photos this summer of her cute little tan lines, but never really felt they were appropriate to post on the blog) :)