Willa’s fever is still here…

After she vomited one time too many during the night from Monday to Tuesday I could no longer sleep and decided to just get up, take a shower and head to the ER at the Montreal Children’s hospital. I left my house at 4:30 and was there by 5:30, bypassing traffic and arriving in an empty waiting room.

When we arrived she didn’t have fever but we were seen shortly after and her overall look got the attention of the doctor. I explained the last few weeks and what had already been done and then was handed over to the next doctor as it was the shift change. The same tests were ordered, blood, urine and x-ray blood tests. As we went in for the blood tezt her fever spiked and they recorded it at 39.6 under her arm (so 40.1C or 104f) seeing that it can come and go suddenly.

We waited for the results and waited for her to pee for the urine test and when she wasn’t doing so after a few hours they cathed her for just a sec to get just enough urine out… I hated to put her through that…. Especially because after a few hours of waiting for the results the tests came back mostly negative, or at least showing the same problems as they were showing nearly two weeks ago… Her body is fighting off some type of infection and there is evidence of inflammation somewhere but they have no clue what it is.

The good thing though is that with breast milk alone she has stayed hydrated and though her iron is slightly low she is not anemic and is actually doing quite well in that way for a child who had stopped eating and drinking.

The doctor asked us to get a followup with our pediatrician soon and was happy to hear that I had already scheduled an appointment for thursday. He printed off her results to bring to him and we left. When I was just leaving the parking lot the doctor called me on my cell because he had thought of a possible bone infection which would not be visible on the tests and told me to mention it to the local pediatrician if the fever persists.

Yesterday, he called again, just to see how she was doing, wondering if she was complaining of any pain and making sure that we still had an appointment scheduled today. I have never had an ER doc follow up before…. I still don’t know what to think of it…

So we continue to wait… For the next appointment, for more questions, for maybe more tests with the hope that the fever will break and leave and that we will never have an explanation…