We waited out the fever for 5 nights and decided that was enough for any run-of-the-mill virus to have done its thing by now. On Wed morn I took her to the doctor and it turns out the source of her fever was an ear infection! WTH? Didn't see that one coming. She had just barely started getting congestion and though she told me everything else that hurt, her ear wasn't one of them. Till the doc asked if her ear hurt and she said yes. Huh? So there you go, two doses of antibiotics later and she was fever-free and sleeping through the night peacefully again. By Thursday she was back in school and we had emerged from the land of cold medicine, board games, and repetition of Chipmunks: the Squeakquel to the healthy and sane again.
Too bad I waited too long to take her but I thought I was being the calm mother who was waiting out a virus. When it's a virus you can take your child in and there's really not much the doc can do so I figured what's the point? If she'd have told me her ear hurt I'd have at least had a clue. I guess it felt funny but probably not that Vicodin-driving pain like the one I had a few years ago.
Kids.
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