Illness

On Wednesday they called from the daycare to tell me Miss C had a temp and would need to go home. Thankfully we were already planning on getting her early for her 18 month check up.

At the daycare her temp was 101.6 and at the doctor she had no temp. They checked everything...ears were good, nose and throat good, everything was good yet when SP had picked her up from the daycare she was laying on the floor sleeping while all the other kids played. Something was wrong it was just hidding from the doctors.

She was miserable. Wanted to be held. Didn't want to eat. Nothing appeased her and nothing seemed to make her feel better. Our happy go lucky girl was a lethargic baby who wouldn't part with her paci or her blankie.

Since we couldn't take her to daycare Nana and Papa came up to watch her on Thursday. Thursday she got worse and ended up running a temp of 103.4. We took her back to the doctor who again could not detect a temp and couldn't find anything wrong with her.

They thought she might have a bladder infection so we had to try to collect a urine sample using this ziploc baggie thing. Talk about difficult. The baggie didn't stick where it needed to stick and most of the urine went in the diaper and not in the baggie. Nana did good to squeeze out a drop and I reused the baggie and was able to get another drop later. Just enough for a test to show she didn't have a bladder infection.

Her temp did go down and with it came two nights of her waking up at 3 wanting to be up because she slept so much during the day. There were moments when she was backed to her old self followed by moments where she would just lay down and rest in the middle of the room. Her behavior has also been out of sorts with more crying, tantrums, hitting and throwing. I will be glad when our girl is back to her healthy self.

Tonight she ate more than she has in 3 days. She took a good nap earlier and when to bed easily. Cross your fingers she wakes up refreshed and well.