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juin 16, 2005
Hot Baby
Well, most of you know what a challenge Maddie is from a medical standpoint. Well the lastest (sigh) is that she has had fever for about 8 weeks now. Every day we take her temp twice and it's always over 100.4 at least one of those times. It only goes as high as 101.5 though. So, she's had a bunch of tests and so far everything is normal. Now my ped. wants me to go see an infectious disease specialist. I'm kind of over it and have accepted the fact that my daughter perhaps is just hot natured in the thermal sense. God bless a new friend/acquaintance of mine who is a second year pediatric resident in Providence, RI. She's considered faculty at Brown which is pretty cool. She was kind enough to take time out of her 100 hour work week to talk to me about this. My ped. leaves a lot to be desired in the bedside manner department, and wasn't answering my questions (you'd think that asking "how are you?" and "do you have any questions?" would go standard with the pediatric visit, but apparently it doesn't, LOL. To her credit she is a good doctor, she'd be a great doctor if she'd ask the two aforementioned questions and listened to the responses, without interrupting, which she tends to do...). Well anyway, so my friend said that it is very possible that it is all normal which helped to alleviate my fears and she also informed me that it was unlikely to be any kind of cancer (hello, a mom's worst fear next to pool drownings, fatal poisonings, and car crashes). So, I guess I'm off to the ID specialist. I have to call and make an appt. I'm just so tired of the medical drama, and Mike too. I am, however, blessed that Maddie is as healthy as she is and, as with all things, it could always be much worse.
Posted by carriec at juin 16, 2005 04:03 PM
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unga bunga i'd be tired too. god bless lil maddie!
Posted by: katiek at juin 16, 2005 08:01 PM