Really Long Week

It has been a rough couple of weeks! Last week I came down with this awful stomach virus. I swear, I just wanted to roll over and die! It was terrible. The nausea and vomiting, when I got over it, Makayla got it, then Lance, as soon as I realized how very contagious it was I immediately sent my three month old daughter, Sophie, to my mother in laws house. That's all I needed was a sick three month old I thought.

Then this week rolled around. Tuesday I ended up having to take Mak to the doctor, her nose had been running like Niagara Falls, they checked her out, and thankfully there was nothing in her lungs, so they just told me to give her benydrille to clear up her sinuses. Wednesday I was sick again, I was nauseous for some reason, still haven't figured that out, but I just chalked it up to after effects of the stomach thing. Friday is where it all goes to hell. I get up that morning to go to work, get every one ready to go. Everything seems fine. At about nine thirty that morning my mother calls me at work and tells me that Sophie (the baby) has a fever of 104!!! So I have to leave work and call the doctor. They tell me that they don't know whats causing it but because it was so high that they wanted to have a blood panel done to try and figure out what was going on. We get over to trident emergency room and they had to stick her three times just to get her to bleed enough to fill two little vials! I met my mother at huddle house while I waited for the pharmacy to fill a script and for the test results from Sophies blood work. The doctor finally calls me right when I'm heading home and tells me that she wants me to go down to Trident Main down on hwy 78. So I turn around and get to going that way when she calls me back and tells me that she would rather me go all the way down to MUSC pediatrics department. So onward I go. Sophie is still running the fever even after the baby tylenol and I'm starting to get really worried. It takes me about an hour and a half to get down to downtown Charleston, then it took me two hours just to find the stupid building!!! I tell you there is a reason I don't live in Charleston. She's still running the fever when I get her in the door. They call us back to her roomand take her temp 103.8. They give her some pedialyte and then we are there for two hours just waiting on the doctor to come look at her. They did one test on her urine ( they had to cath her - not fun) to rule out a UTI, nothing else, they didn't draw the first drop of blood, which was the whole reason that we were down there was to get blood cultures done because the original blood panel showed her white count was like way high. I was so upset that they weren't doing what they were supposed to. They didn't even have the test results from the Trident blood work!!!!!!!!!!!!! We got home around 11 30 pm. I woke up at five the next morning to go to work. I'm so glad this week is over.