The Mysterious Case of the Mystery Fever

Wow, do I have a lot of catching up to do. Sorry for the lack in posts!

Last Monday began as normal with a breakfast, chores and a trip to my gym. When we arrived home and I picked her up out of the car I noticed she was a little warm. Within an hour I realized she was definitely feverish. But everything else seemed normal - she ate and played like any day. After nap time she continued with the low fever but playing and snacking on grapes.

That changed by late afternoon. Her fever was up to 103.8 and the medicine wasn't bringing it down. She still liked the grapes but would only cuddle up next to me. The fact that medicine wasn't bringing down a high fever worried me as well as not knowing what was causing the fever. I know fevers are there to take care of whatever the problem is but I didn't know what the problem was.

On top of that, we don't have any family doctors here and are between doctors in Ohio. I tried calling the practice we will be joining and asked for the on call doctor to call. He hadn't within 30 minutes so we decided to just take Josie to urgent care.

The hospital here has a special pediatric urgent care, so Josie was happy as a clam to watch the fish and read books while we waited. The receptionist, nurse and doctor were all great and soon Josie was diagnosed with a viral throat infection, kind of like hand-foot-and-mouth but without the hands and feet. It was predicted to take a few more days to play out.

And of course the on call doctor called in the middle of talking to the urgent care doctor.

The next day involved a small fever and she was fine by the evening.

Wednesday began the same way as Monday with breakfast, chores and gym. Then it was Xander's turn to spike a fever. And he did not take it as well as Josie. He spurned food and headed to bed at 5:30, insisting on Mom sitting next to him.

Thursday was a low fever and he was fine by evening.

The weekend went swimmingly.

Tuesday Josie had a fever again. It hasn't been high, so we haven't used much medicine. But this time she has a cough that is getting worse and her naps have been horrible. I just try to remember that this, too, shall pass. It will likely pass to Xander