September 2nd: Well, after naps yesterday Shaylen was still feeling hot. It was too soon to give her more Advil. Around 4:00 Shaylen started this jerking action that really scared me. It wasn't like a seizure, and not like shivering. It was a happy medium. Janelle showed up (thank the Lord!) and she noticed it too. We were both concerned. Shaylen's skin was mottled and she was so hot & lethargic. I called the pediatricians office at 4:30. After explaining the symptoms the nurse relayed to me that the doctor wanted me to go to the ER.
Thankfully, Janelle was there to watch Marshall and allowed me to take her car (which had our old carseats in it) to the hospital.When we got to SMMC (Southern Maine Medical Center) in Biddeford the triage nurse took her temp (103.5) and gave her some tylenol. Then we proceeded to wait in the lobby FOREVER!!! Finally around 7:00 we were taken back into the ER. There we waited another 1/2 an hour for the doctor to come in the room and he did a quick checkeroo and said that some people do that jerking when they have those high fevers. It was probably just a viral infection. He said he was going to go and examine her urine sample and see if she had some other infection.
He left us there for another 1/2 an hour. I quoted the stories of Cinderella, three Curious George stories, the Gingerbread tale and Goldilocks and the Three Bears before he finally came back. He checked Shaylen again and looked at her rash, her bum, her legs and chest and told me she was fine, it wasn't seizures and not to worry. I informed him calmly and tactfully that it was the dr that had told me to come in. Soooo, finally at 8:05 we were on our way home. Shaylen hadn't had dinner. She was an angel. You would have been so proud of her. Her fever was back up to 103.7 this morning, but she seems to be more active today and there has been no return of the jerking! Praise the Lord.
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