Sick :(

Poor Ads missed out on the Family Night fun because she was home sick. She started out with a fever and had to stay home from daycare. The fever was hanging on, but she was in pretty good spirits.

After learning from the pediatrician's nurse line that a high fever virus was going around, we were watching her closely, but just trying to wait it out. Then, as we were going to bed Saturday night of that weekend, Adelaide woke up sad. Jake went to check on her and when he took her temperature it varied a bit, but he was getting readings over 105 and even one 106.1. Yikes! We called the nurse line again (remember, we were waiting out a "high fever virus") and this time they suggested taking her in, especially since the dose of tylenol we had given her wasn't bringing the fever down much.

So, Addy and I bundled up and headed over to the ER to find out what was going on with our sweet girl. Thankfully, Fairview Ridges has a lovely pediatric unit with wonderful staff. Unfortunately, Adelaide didn't care about that and was simply a tired, sick, not thrilled with doctors in general and definitely not loving them in the middle of the night, toddler.

They tested for influenza (Ads HATED that test), which came back negative. Since she didn't have other symptoms, the doctor's other thought was a bladder infection. Our squarely in diapers girl was not excited about sitting on a potty, especially in the middle of the night, but we gave it a valiant effort in hopes of avoiding a catheter.

Look at this cute little potty that they brought to our room!

Too bad Addy hated it until she fell asleep.

Ultimately, though, we couldn't get a sample the "easy" way and we had to go the catheter route. Again Addy hated the test (who wouldn't?!), but she calmed fairly quickly afterwards and was able to get a little sleep. Though I would have preferred to be home, I couldn't help but relish the snuggles from my independent gal.

That test ended up coming back negative as well and we went home around 2 AM with a diagnosis of a high fever virus and mild dehydration due to the fever. Ugh! Even more frustrating - Addy woke up the next morning with no fever of course.

Though the timing was terrible and it was a somewhat unnecessary ER visit given the diagnosis, we would do it again and checked the parenting box of ER visit during toddlerhood.