Sunday night was my night shift. Starting sometime today, I'll pick up my first 24-hour shift. Elli seemed to improve early Monday morning, but then steadily but stealthily worsened through the day. By evening, she was in really bad shape. She had a fever but couldn't keep the meds down. I took a temp before giving her a tylenol suppository, and it was 104.9. That's scary-high.
I called the pediatrician and he didn't hesitate to send us down to the ED. Since I had taken the night shift Sunday, Scott offered to take her down and do the night shift last night. After wrestling with my inner control-freak, I took him up on the offer. I knew there was no way I'd be able to gracefully handle the stress of the ED and the second night of no sleep.
I didn't sleep that great last night -- kept waking up to see if they were home and wondering how she was doing. But I got more sleep than Scott did. He was with her in the ED until 2:30am (they left the house around 8pm), then had to deal with doctors and nurses up on the floor until after 4am. He was up talking to me around 8am, so he's tired.
None of the tests they did last night came back with anything, so they are running some more today. One is a urine culture, which is already looking suspicious simply by its absence. They tried to cath her for urine, and should have found a large amount since she had iv fluids all night. But they got none. None! Very weird. And with Elli, it's the little seemingly inconsequential things like this that tip you off to what's really going on. Along with the fact that she is still feverish, I fully expect her to stay at least one more night.
So I'll head down sometime this afternoon to take the next 24-hour shift.
And we're all praying that she gets better really fast. This is the last two weeks of school, which is full of fun activities and I hate for her to miss all that! Plus, Little Boy's heart surgery is next week. I'm not sure I'm ready to try to handle two kids in the hospital at the same time, though if that's what God has in mind, we'll do it. I was just hoping it wouldn't happen til they are both much much older and we plan it that way!
Silly me. Thinking I could plan something like that!
