Jeopardy Question and Funny Comments

I'll take things I never thought I'd have to deal with for 100 Alex.

Monday morning Sydney woke up with a fever ranging from 100.2 to 101.0 Not a big deal right_ so I call Jas at work to see if it was okay to give her tylenol yet. He said you should take her to the Dr. I said are you kidding me I am not dragging 4 kids to the Dr. for a little fever. Long story short- he won-I went. Dr. says her fever is 100.4 you need to take her to the ER. I said excuse me- Evidently (stupid me) that is very high and dangerous for a newborn.

I call Jason bawling because I don't wan't to take all the kids to the ER and now I'm nervous. His Cpt. let him go and he meets me at the ER I had Jas take her in because he knew the staff and had the medical know how.


Jas gave her a blessing and updated me often. Her fever was getting higher and they were very worried- they ran blood tests, hooked her up to an IV, took x-rays, and gave my baby a spinal tap. It was very hard for Jas to see. Final verdict- she was admitted for Pnemonia and dehydration. I just cried! When I showed up to the hospital and saw her hooked up to everything it broke my heart! They said she'd be there for 1-3 days.

I found some comfort however when I showed up and found that our good friend Ipuna was teaching her nursing students in the hospital that day and was our nurse! The whole staff was actually wonderful.
Is this not the saddest thing you've ever seen? Bad story gets better. She reacted so quickly to the antibiotics that her fever dropped and she was doing so well that they let her go late that night. She was getting better but still not fun for her.



The next 4 days she had to go to the Pediatricians and get antibiotic injections (very painful) then she had to go get more blood work done to make sure she's all clear. (The lady missed twice, and was fishing around with the needle) It was so awful and the baby was screaming so bad I seriously almost passed out! She's also on an oral antibiotic that hurts her stomach so bad that she just cries for the next 6 hours after her dose. Today is the last dose and she is healthy and healed.



Let me tell you about my miracle baby- she is here for a reason and she is so strong. So far life has not been wonderful for her, she has been through so much already in her 6 short weeks here-I can't wait for her to be out of pain.



This was really scary for us but it gave me a great respect for those that have to watch their children suffer from even more serious things like cancers and life threatening diseases. We were so lucky she healed so quickly, preisthood blessings are so amazing!

It also made me greatful for modern medicine. If we lived in the 1800's I don't think my sweet baby would even be alive. She never would have survived the delivery and pnemonia took the life of many people. How lucky we are to have the things we have.


On that note- moms of baby girls...when you take her out all dressed in pink with bows in their hair, what is the funniest question you get..... Is it a boy or a girl, or how old is HE.. ahhh -so sweet Ashley bought her this hysterical shirt. I wonder how many questions I'll get now?