Well, this morning Audrey wasn't feeling so good. She was congested, boogery and had a fever (101F). I gave her a dose of Tylenol but a couple of hours later, she was not only running a fever again (103F), but she was shivering - chattery gums (she only has one tooth so far) and everything. So I brought her to the pediatrician. By the time we got there, she had stopped shivering but she still had a fever. They did a finger prick and found out she had a high white blood cell (WBC) count, which means she's fighting some kind of infection. She had no sign of any ear infections so they tried to get a urine sample to check for a urinary tract infection but she wasn't so cooperative with that. They are treating it as a general infection. They gave her a shot and a prescription for Amoxicillan. The pediatrician did mention that she was a very happy baby for being so sick. She was giggling and playing in spite of it all.
We'll be going back to the pediatrician tomorrow morning for Kyle's hospital discharge follow-up appointment and they will be giving him another immunization against pneumonia. He's already had one but the immunology work-up they did on him came up negative for immunity so they're going to try again. Considering he had pneumonia twice last year and once this year already, it would be nice if the vaccine took this time.
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