Not satisfied with the fact that at Urgent Care, the doctor just gave her more of the same antibiotics she'd just been on (which obviously didn't prevent whatever new sickness she got), I called her pediatrician's office first thing yesterday morning. The nurse agreed with me and so Ramy picked Rebecca up, then picked me up at Casa Colina, and we headed east for a 2:15 appointment. After scaring the crap out of me when the doctor was asking questions about symptoms of meningitis, Dr. Wong seemed pretty convinced that it was likely a urinary tract infection. So they did the bag on her to get a urine sample, and we waited and waited and tried to get her to drink more, to no avail. So they had to catheterize her to get the urine sample. They did the dipstick in the office, and sent the rest of it to be cultured. The dipstick came back clean, so that indicates away from a UTI. Just to be sure there wasn't something more sinister, she ordered a blood culture in addition to a CBC. So it looks like it is probably viral. Dr. Wong just wanted to rule out any kind of serious bacterial thing. She was still running a 102.4° fever in the doctor's office yesterday.
Over night, her fever seems to have stayed down and she slept well last night. Dr. Wong is going to call me this morning to let me know what the CBC showed. It will be a couple of days before the blood and urine cultures come back.
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