me and my house

sweet lily woke us up screaming in pain on thursday night at 11:00 (yes, i was dead asleep at 11:00- i had been in bed 2 hours already!). it was such a scary sound to hear coming across the baby monitor and i literally sprinted to her room and grabbed her out of her crib. she was burning up and her temperature was 103.5

we took off her clothes and blanket, kept her naked and called the doctor. i stayed up with her all night and took her to the doctor in the morning. all of her basic tests came back clear so we were sent home with instructions to go to the hospital if she got worse. she slept all day and when she wasn't sleeping she was crying. it was so sad and terrible to see. we had a cool washcloth a la erica badu on her head just to try to cool her off.


by 9:00 last night nothing could keep her from screaming, so we headed to dell children's hospital. they were amazing and admitted her without even going to the waiting room because she was clearly not doing well. her skin was very mottled in color and her soft spot was swollen and hard.

we were there for about 4 hours. sweet lily went through blood draws, a catheter for urinalysis, an iv for antibiotics, and a spinal tap to check for bacterial meningitis. thank the good lord for kevin- i couldn't watch the spinal tap. i took one look at her tiny baby back hunched over and covered in iodine and had to leave the room.

her fever finally broke at about 12:30 and she was herself again for about 30 minutes. it was a miracle to see her smiling for the first time in over 24 hours. i took this during that time:


her tests showed a viral infection and it is most likely a viral form of meningitis. so now we just wait for her to start to feel better. she is dealing with a serious spinal tap headache and just aches when you touch her. we are so lucky that it is nothing more serious and she should be back to normal in another day or so.

it was one of the hardest nights i have had as a mom and i hope i don't have to hear her screaming in pain like that ever again! i also have been running a fever and am not feeling so great, so now i'm off to go nap with her some more. us girls are beat!

note- while i was typing this she settled down awake but quiet for the first time in a while, but then she yawned and that was enough movement to make her start crying again! can you imagine?!! :(