We went in for our usual Thurs. weigh in and explained to Dr. Kendall she had had a fever since 9pm the night before. She had slept over at Grandma’s and in taking her temp it was a 102 reading at 2am. The fever never got below 99 with Tylenol. Adi had had an ear infection for 2 weeks and amoxicillin and omnicef didn’t work to get rid of them. Dr. Kendall asked if we should have a blood draw taken to check that the bacterial infection hadn’t gone to her blood. We went home and at 4:30pm Adi started having very thick saliva and had a fever of 103.4 rectally. After talking to Val for a minute on the phone I realized I needed to get to Dr. Kendall’s office before it closed. When we got into a room her fever was 103.6. Dr. Kendall told me she didn’t feel comfortable to let me go up to Primary Children’s by myself and that I needed someone to drive me. Of course, Val without being asked called me to let me know she was on her way. What a lifesaver!!!! We were in the emergency room at 6pm. The ER Dr ordered a blood draw and told us he wanted to test for meningitis with a lumbar puncture(LP). He also wanted to do a snot test to check for other viruses. The blood work came back normal and they were waiting for a blood culture they were growing at Timp. They got ready for the Lumbar puncture and that was an awful procedure. They had to hold Adi and pretty much bend her in half so they could get the needle in between the vertebrae. She was screaming the whole time. On his first try, he inserted the needle and blood came out. He told us he must have nicked a blood vessel. He tried again and the same thing happened. He had to go get another needle and left Adi bent in half screaming for another 10 min. He tried a third time and missed again. At this point he said he was going to get another doctor to try. The new doctor came in about 5 min and took 5 min to reposition Adi. She then inserted the needle and got more blood. I was getting pretty upset because it had almost been an hour and Adi had been screaming the whole time. The doctors said that 99% of the time it only takes one try, but of course we were the one percent that has an awful experience. The next step was to have an anesthesiologist try under fluoroscopy. They couldn’t do it that night though because they missed so many times and the site was so swollen. The test was taken the next day and the test came back negative for meningitis. The doctors started her on rocephin 600mg through her IV to treat her ear infection and as a preventative treatment. The rocephin was taken for three days along with rotating Tylenol and Motrin to bring down her fever. She had a continuous fever of 101 until the 28th when the snot test was finally ordered and she tested positive for adeno virus- which is a respiratory virus. There wasn’t much more they could do except control her pain and try to keep the fever down. It subsided the next day and we were discharged that day.
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