Sick Again (March 24)

The day of the funeral Emerson was VERY sleepy! A couple people commented on how laid back of a baby she was and in the back of my mind I was thinking she was a little too laid back that day. We stayed at the Lutz's house the night after the funeral and when Emerson woke up in the middle of the night to eat she was HOT. I took her temperature because she had still been battling a little bit of a cold and I was paranoid about her being sick after the RSV hospitalization just a few weeks earlier. Sure enough she had a temperature of 101.6 which under 3 months any temperature over 100.4 they have to been seen in the Emergency Room for a sepsis work up. I called the NICU to see what they thought and they thought she probably should be seen so then I placed a call to the nurse on call line and she called our pediatrician who was on call. Dr David also recommended that she been seen in the ER. Now I had to make the decision to take her to the Norfolk ER or drive back to Lincoln in the middle of the night. I don't think Norfolk necessarily has a bad ER or hospital it was just the fact of if someone was going to have to do another spinal tap on her it was going to be a Dr that I knew and our pediatrician was going to be the one that was ordering it. I also was pretty sure that she was going to have to be admitted to the pediatrics unit until they had blood cultures that were negative for 48 hours and I didn't want to be in a different town than Robb if that happened.

I called Robb and talked to Bob and Susie and after some debating I made the call to pack up the girls at 1:30am and just drive back to Lincoln. Poor Abby was really upset about being woke up and put in a cold car. I think by the time we made it out of Norfolk I had promised her a stuffed animal, a pop and candy bar the next day just to keep her from throwing a complete fit and waking up Emerson. It was a long drive back to Lincoln by myself in the middle of the night especially since I was really nervous about Emerson and stopped multiple times to make sure she was still breathing. We made it back to Lincoln safe, dropped off Abby and headed to St. Elizabeth's ER.  

When we got there she still had a temp over 101 so we went through the same steps of having to have lab drawn, a urine culture taken and a respiratory panel done again. The poor girl was so wore out and tired of being poked! Luckily the lab work looked good, the respiratory panel was all negative and the urine was fine so we ended up getting to go home with instructions to follow up with Dr David in the morning. What a long night!