Lizzie's Journey

Another long night

It's turned out to be a really long weekend. Lizzie is still not feeling well, and we can't really figure out why. :( Her fever spiked to 103.6 this afternoon, and I feel completely useless. If I keep her medicated with tylenol or ibuprofen, the fever goes down, and she feels much better... until it wears off. Then the fever spikes again, and again she is miserable. The weird thing is that she has NO symptoms. The doctor checked her ears, throat and lungs today and everything looked great. So where is the infection coming from?

When she woke up this evening with 103 again, I broke down and called urology about the abx. I didn't feel comfortable giving her another high dose of abx under the circumstances, but I was completely second guessing myself (despite all my research) and needed some validation. The uro on-call agreed that the abx would be useless b/c the urinalysis was clean. Clean urine is clean urine, it's not the kidneys. Which is great!!! What a HUGE relief! But it still sucks that she is so sick with no clear reason. The uro doc felt I should contact the peds on-call tonight b/c she felt like a fever of 103.6 was concerning. Not necessarily dangerous (as she reminded me she wasn't a peds) but concerning especially with no other symptoms.

So, I called peds back and lucky for me, it was the same doc I talked to yesterday, so she already knew the story. She said that it was a good sign that the fever was going down with meds, so she would let it run it's course for now. She said that we would probably see signs of some type of viral infection in the next 24 hours or so, but admitted it was a little strange to have no symptoms yet. We should call our regular peds tomorrow and let him know what is going on and that if by Tues there was still fever with no symptoms that he will probably want to do some testing. He may want to see us tomorrow, depending on how things look tomorrow.

Labels: fever, signs of infection, UTI