Maggie's temp was still soaring at around 103, on and off all day. Zac finally said that he thought she should go to the doctor (first time ever that Daddy has suggested Magnolia go to the doctor before Mommy!). Zac took Maggie in this afternoon fairly certain that Maggie must have strep. His co-workers had little ones at home sick with strep and they had similar symptoms. Dr. Kissam tested for strep, which came back negative. She then ran an RSV test which came back positive. She said RSV generally runs it's course in three days, so it was odd that Maggie was still sick and that her fever was going up still. Maggie has also been doing this odd heaving breathing, which I've been associating mainly with her being annoyed. So with all this Dr. Kissam said she wouldn't feel good about things if we didn't do blood work and a chest x-ray. Here we go again.
Mommy did much better this time. I didn't even cry! Maggie was having so much fun at the hospital, chatting with everyone, and looking at all the babies! She was pretty angry when she realized what we were there for. When they did the chest x-ray they had me hold her, and they had Zac stand off to the side. She screamed "Daddy!!!!" during the x-ray, and he couldn't go near her. That was pretty much the worst Daddy torture I've ever seen so far!
She's still doing amazingly well. Her fever will go up, and she'll cuddle and act all sad, then she gets a little Motrin and you wouldn't even know she's sick. I've realized that Magnolia is simply not the average child, and no matter what, if the average child is only going to be sick 3 days, she'll be sick at least 5-6 days!
This morning, during a span of time when she was feeling pretty good, she asked to paint. Well as many of you know, Maggie paints EVERY day. I'm so sick of painting that I suggested Oobleck instead. She agreed, and quite enjoyed it!
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