We're Feeling Better (and sleeping again)

What a weekend! On Thursday last week, I was really looking forward to the weekend. We had a PD day on Friday at work, so that meant 8:30-2:30 and NO kiddos! Then, we were off on Monday for President's Day.

On Thursday when I picked Keira up, Aunt Sis said that she felt a bit warm to her. So, that evening, I took her temperature and it was about 101 degrees. I gave her some Tylenol, and she slept off and on that night. Friday morning, she woke up with a fever (near 102 degrees). I gave her some medicine and took her to Aunt Sis and Uncle Doug's house. I called to check on her around 1:30, and Aunt Sis said that she'd given her some Tylenol earlier and that her temp. was about 99 degrees. I was glad to hear it. But, by the time I picked her up and got to Mom and Dad's house that afternoon at 3:00, her fever was back and up to 103 degrees.
I decided not to call the doctor because she didn't have any other symptoms and the fever was going down with medicine.

SO, she was cranky Friday evening and didn't sleep much that night. Then Saturday she ran a fever all day long. Kelly and Dave both came to visit Saturday afternoon. At 10:00 on Saturday night, Keira's fever was up to 104 degrees. I decided that I'd waited long enough and called the pediatrician's office emergency hotline. The nurse I spoke to said that if she didn't have any other symptoms I didn't have to take her to the ER unless I was just really worried. Shawn and I decided that we would just wait until Sunday to see how she was feeling. If she still had a fever on Sunday, we would take her to the ER.

Wouldn't you know it, we woke up Sunday and NO FEVER! She slept all day Sunday, and I thought we were out of the woods. Then, on Monday evening I was changing her diaper and noticed red bumps ALL OVER her body! I called in to work for Tuesday and vowed to call the doctor's office the next morning. It was a long night! She was up (and crying) every hour between 9:00 pm and 6:00 am.

I took her to the pediatrician's office on Tuesday morning and found out that she had a rash caused by a viral infection! I was terrified that it was measles! Thankfully it wasn't, though, and it didn't really even seem to bother her all that much. We came home from the doctor's office at 10:45 am and she slept until 3:00. Things are back to normal now, and I couldn't be happier! What a (long) weekend!