Diagnosis.

*sigh* So the last 24 hours have been interesting to say the least. Kadence wasn't too much of a handful last night. Temperature was still around 101 when I put her down for bed, but she went down easy. Got up several times thru out the night and was pouring sweat, but the fever went down to 99 and stayed there the whole night. Woke her up this morning and bathed her and all was well, ate a decent breakfast and even started hoarding her pancakes in the bedroom :)

Went ahead and checked her temp right before we left and she was back up to 101 again (ugh) so we loaded up the car and started the hour long trek to the pediatrician. Half way down and running late, Kadence started hacking a lung and basically puked EVERYWHERE. Lovie, outfit, carseat. You name it. Luckily Jason had stashed some rags in the bag of the car without me knowing -- thank God since I'd recently cleaned out my truck. So got her cleaned up on the side of the highway and made it to our appointment on time.

Turns out she has a the flu (don't think it's the stomach kind though..think the hacking tripped her gag reflex and made her puke) and she has a double earache. They put her on Tylenol and Motrin (the generic equivalents) alternating every 3 hours and a heavy dosage of the pink stuff for the ears for the next 10 days. I also had the doctor check out my own ear even though she couldn't treat me for it and she was amazed that it was so bad and that I hadn't had 'symptoms' for very long. Needless to say, she told me to get to a doctor, but I refuse to pay $115 for a walk in clinic just to get some free pink stuff at Publix. So I grabbed some ear drops and I'm hoping it'll do the trick. Crossing fingers.

xo