Catching Up...the first ER visit

It's been awhile since we have posted...Maddie has been keeping us busy. Maddie made her first trip to the ER. On September 20th (the day of our cousin Troy's wedding) Maddie wasn't feeling very well. She seemed warm, and her "bodily functions" weren't normal. She seemed warm and slept most of the day, so we gave her some baby Tylenol and hoped she would be better by the time we had to leave for the wedding. When that time came, she still felt warm, so I told Matt to go ahead to the wedding and I would stay home.

Maddie slept most of the day and about an hour after Matt left, I took her temperature and it was 103.6. Needless to say, I began freaking out and called Matt to tell him we were going to the hospital. I got her dressed and drove to the hospital. The down side? The closest hospital is in Lake Forest, which is about a 1/2 hour drive.

Making a long story short, after waiting over an hour and a half for the ER doctor to come in, it turned out that Maddie had a throat virus, which caused the fever and the other symptoms. Since it was a virus, there was nothing that they could give her, just motrin for the pain and tylenol for the fever. Of course, easier said than done. It hurt Maddie to eat, talk, and swallow, therefore, it hurt for her to take her medicine. She was up the next few nights crying and screaming, and of course we felt helpless because there was nothing we could do. Luckily, she's over the infection and feeling much better.