Much to be Thankful For

We had plans to go back home to Newcastle this Thanksgiving to see Jason's family, but those plans had to be cancelled due to Lily getting ill.  We were supposed to leave on Wednesday afternoon, but on Tuesday morning Lily spiked a temperature of over 103.  It came on out of nowhere.  She was fine the night before and she was fine when she woke up in the morning.  She threw up twice on Wednesday and her temp kept getting higher and higher.  She would break her fever with some Ibupforen and Tylenol.  When her fever was down she was a completely different kid than when she had the fever.  She would play and perk up and drink fluids, but when the fever would return she was listless and didn't want to do anything.  She would just cry and want to lay with mom or dad.  She was miserable.  The meds would keep her fever away for about 2 hours and then it would return again.  I knew it was a virus of some sorts that would just have to run its course.  On day 3 of this when she woke up with a fever of 104.4 I decided we better have her looked at.  This happened to be on Thanksgiving Day.  We had to take her to the Pediatric Express Clinic and of course we waited for two hours before seeing the Dr.  I hesitated to bring her in knowing full well it was a virus and we were doing everything right at home already for her, but with your own child you never want to make a wrong decision and regret it later.  Her ears looked fine, but her throat was red with a pus pocket in the back of it so the Dr. ran a rapid strep test on her.  Thank goodness it was negative.  Mom was right...a nasty virus that has to run its course.  By Friday Lily was already doing much better...still with a fever but lower, and by Saturday she was back to her ornery little self!  So even though we did not make our trip back home and have an entire Thanksgiving dinner (my mom packed us up a plate of their leftovers...YUMMY) we still have so much to be thankful for.  We are thankful that Lily is feeling much better and that Avery didn't get ill too.  We are thankful for our families for understanding.  We are thankful for each other and we are thankful for our faith.  Hopefully she stays well for Christmas so we can make it back home!  Avery will be two months old by then and Grandma Romaine hasn't seen her since she was 14 HOURS old!