Yesterday, we received a phone call from Day Care that Maya had a temperature of 101.8. We went and picked her up, brought her home, and called our 24-hour consulting nurse. Her verdict was that Rachel was bad for giving Maya baby Tylenol and that we should bring Maya in to Urgent Care. So off we went (and the nurses there told Rachel that the baby Tylenol was the right thing to do.) Maya was traumatized with a urine catheter, a blood draw, and the worst of them all, a chest x-ray. The way they do baby chest x-rays is interesting....they sit the baby on a little seat and ask the parent to raise the baby's arms in the air. They then enclose the baby in this plastic tube to keep them upright. It looked like one of those tubes you put your bank deposit in at a bank drive-thru. (Rachel kept telling Maya that she wasn't a bank deposit, but it didn't seem to reassure Maya or stop the crying.) The result of all the poking and prodding was that they couldn't find any reason that she had a fever, but gave her a shot of 24-hour antibiotics just in case and told us to bring her back to her doctor today.
This morning, Maya had no fever. We took her to her doctor and, after he made fun of her hair, he said she is fine. While we know it won't be her last visit to Urgent Care, it certainly was an eventful first visit.
Maya's war wounds...her "blood bracelet" on her arm and shot band-aid on her leg. Poor baby!
Daisy supervising bath time
Maya's war wounds...her "blood bracelet" on her arm and shot band-aid on her leg. Poor baby!
Daisy supervising bath time
2 comments:
Wow! Sounds like a scary moment you guys had there. Happy that everything checked out okay though!!!
Glad to see that Maya is doing better, I'm sure it was stressful for you guys so hope you're doing better. Daisy, nice job on bath supervision!
Jason & Jamie
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