Okay we had a long weekend for sure! Friday the boy I watch was sent home for having a fever of 102. I went out to dinner with a friend, when I got home Teag was so hot. I took her temp and it was 102 as well and I could tell she was not feeling good at all. So I took her to MRMC hospital ER and the doctor came in asked some questions. I mentioned she had been pulling at her ears, so they check and said she did have a ear infection wrote a Rx and sent me on my way. I went and got Rx filled, the next morning I tried to give her her Rx and she threw up. She would not take the medicine and her tempeture would not break. We continued our day and tried to keep giving her the medicine. By Saturday evening her temp would not break still she had only taken in about 8 ounces all day and I knew something was really wrong she also had thrown up a few times that day.
We then decided we needed a second opinion and took her to ER room at Saint Marys hospital (where Teag was born). They took us right in, it was around 8 pm that night and the nurse was amazing. I told her everything. They looked in her mouth, since she had been drooling a lot and keeping her mouth open. Sure enough she had blisters in the back of her throat. A virus called Herpangina, it is contracted through saliva so toys the kids shared or nipples, pacifiers anything!!!! She could have gotten it anywhere, I mean she eats everything :) The nurse said they have been seeing a lot of this lately. However since she was throwing up and not being able to keep the medicine down they put an IV in her little sweet hand. That hurt my heart so bad to see her in pain and stuck by needles. The first vein burst in her hand since she was dehydrated, so they had to re-due the IV on her other hand!! More pain for her and mama!! I cried, She was a champ though. She then slept for a few hours there since they were giving her fluids and something for her nausea.
After sleeping at around midnight they came in to try to give her pain medicine again (hydrocodone), strong stuff. She did take it, yet was not happy about it. They let her sleep until around 1;30 a.m. and then asked me to wake her to get her to eat. They needed her to eat some before she could be discharged. She woke up and ate about an ounce and a half. We were then discharged. It is now Monday morning and she is doing little better,still not eating well but she is happy much more. Fever is gone and not vomiting at all! She is still taking hydrocodone and Motrin every four hours rotating. She will be fine it is just a virus and has to run its course, they said 7-10 days as of Saturday so I'm looking at about a week left but we are over the worst part thankfully. Hope no more ER rooms for a while.....
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