Hot August Nights

On Tuesday the 19th, Emma was warm. All of Emma's team realizes that she gets hotter later - her fevers are usually after hours. At about 2:00 I called clinic and asked whether her slowly-rising-just-barely-reaching-100.4 temperature was good enough to come to clinic, or should I wait an hour?

They trust the momma instinct and experience and said to come in. Gramma Linda was in the area and came to sit with the other kids til Daddy could get home.

Emma got a dose of rocephin, which is a tough antibiotic that covers most any bug for 24 hours. Her blood counts were really high. I think her ANC was in the neighborhood of 3500. Way high for this kid. Good enough to head for home and no worries.

The next afternoon she continued to be warm, and it was only at about 7:30 p.m. that she hit 101 degrees. Daddy took her to the Emergency department for another dose of rocephin.

Her blood cultures and urine cultures didn't turn up anything. No infection. Probably just a virus; but not one that was identified specifically in the lab results.