To Go or Not To Go. . . to the Hospital

So, the night after Kayla's dental surgery was a little bit of a scare for us.  She woke up at 2:30AM with a terrible barking cough, fever and sore throat.  She was crying for medicine, which of course, she refused to take.  But, I got her an ice cube to suck on and that seemed to make her throat feel better.

I took Kayla's temperature and it was 100.6.  Although, she was flailing around quite a bit because she doesn't like me to take her temperature (I have a very easy digital one that you just stick in the ear for a second. . . ).  I decided to call the doctor because I was thinking that we'd have to bring her in to the hospital.  The doctor said that he wasn't worried about her cough--it was probably from the surgery-- and I didn't need to bring her in unless her temperature was 101 or if she was having trouble breathing.  (Note:  the doctor on call was not one of my favorites)

So, I told him thanks and went back into Kayla.  She seemed pretty miserable.  I was able to take her temperature 3 more times (I wanted to be sure to get an accurate reading) with Bryson's help.  It was 101, 102 and 101 (each of them point something).  That got me a little more worried.  We were trying to decide what to do.  She calmed down and was going back to sleep.  Her throat felt better from the ice, she wasn't coughing anymore and she did have two very warm blankets that could have helped her body temperature to rise a little extra.

We decided to wait a little while and see how she was doing.  About a half hour later, I felt her head and her fever seemed back down to normal and she was sleeping peacefully.  I was awake for about 2 hours, continuing to check on her and having a hard time going to sleep.

Kayla slept the rest of the night without any problems and has been doing good.  She does still cough a little bit and has had a little runny nose, which worries me, so we will have to keep an eye on it.  We go back in to the clinic on Wednesday next week for chemo again if all is going well.