sick e

i realized i forgot to add little e's story of staph.  I didn't take any pictures of my miserable girl so i didn't think to put it up.   E got sick just before her 9 month apt.  Camiron had just had strep and they warned me if Emory got a fever to bring her in.  So she spiked her first fever ever of 100 ish so i took her in that day.  she was miserable, but after some tylenol and motrin she was back to her normal self by the time we got there.  They did a swab of her throat and her strep came back negative, so the dr sent me home and said, really don't bring her back in... just call if her fever sticks around.  It was kind of the dismiss.  So 4 days later she just kept getting worse. She was so pathetic and would wake up around 100 and go to bed at night around 103.  So finally I just took her back in- after a really sad work up (they had to cathaterize her to get her urine to see if she had a uti, take blood, check her throat, ears etc) and the dr. finally decided to give her a really strong 3 day antibiotic shot to her butt.  I had to bring her back 3 days in a row for it.  Well by day 3 the dr. learned that she had bacteria in her blood which is really scary and if we hadn't done the shots she would have been admitted to the hospital no doubt.  The dr told me that if I hadn't been so diligent she would still have admitted me just to make sure she got all the meds she needed to get it out of her system.  So e had the 3 butt shots, followed up by 10 days of another oral antibiotic (the pharmacist had to triple check if e could really take that strong of one, it was only after she found out she had staph in her blood that she realized why she needed it).  So now we are a first- our dr's first ever staph baby.  don't know how she got it- hope she never gets it again.  a bit scary especially in hind sight.  phew.  love her.  i wish she would quit sucking on shoes- maybe that is where she got it.  i am guessing it started as pnemonia its the one thing we didn't test for.... but what do i know :)