102.1

That was Alyssa's temperature, two days ago.

We called the doctor at about 4:30 telling them about this. Being she is only 6 months old, the doctor wants to see her. We go there of course worried to death because this is the first fever. The first illness, beside one itty bitty cold.

They check ears, mouth, lungs....nothing. The doctor says they have to do a catheter to get a urine sample to check for a urinary tract infection. What?!? A catheter. I immediately start crying. Gary had to hold her arms and comfort her because I was in the corner crying for my daughter. They give her motrin and tell me they will call me this morning.

The next morning (yesterday), while at work, I get a phone call from the nurse telling me that the doctor thinks Alyssa's urine is questionable and wants her to come back in to get a shot of antibiotics. What to they mean her urine is questionable? They set up an appointment at 3:30.

At 3:30 I am the doctor's office with a warm Alyssa. They take her temperature again, and now it has rocketed up to 104.5! Now the doctor is even more concerned and wants to take blood from Alyssa. This time I didn't have Gary there with me to be near her, so I had to do it. I cried, she screamed. The doctor had a hard time finding Alyssa's vein, so it took a while to finally get some blood. Poor Alyssa is in hyperventalation-screaming mode. I am still crying behind her trying to comfort her.

The doctor then gave her a shot of antibiotics. Alyssa screamed with real tears for the whole 2 hours we were there. That is right, TWO hours! I couldn't do anything to calm her down.

Well, the doctor said she has a slight urinary tract infection, but they want me to take the blood and the urine to the hospital to have some more tests run. Since it was now almost 5:30, I called Gary and had him meet me at the hospital, so I didn't have to take poor Alyssa inside.

My instructions from the doctor is to give her medicine every 4 hours. Wake her up to give her medicine in the middle of the night. It actually ended up being no problem, since little miss Alyssa decided to wake up every hour! Thank goodness I didn't have to work today.

We have another appointment this morning at 11:00 for another shot of antibiotics. We should be able to get the results of her bloodwork and urine this morning. This has been a horrible past couple of days. Finally this morning, Alyssa is starting to act like her normal self. I missed her terribly!