mothers day...

yeah, so my first mothers day was hopefully the worst one I will ever have!!!! I got to spend the first 1/2 of it in the ER. Yeah, Lexie was fine on saturday, we had went to a scrapbooking party and she had played with jordan and rhyann (2 teenagers that love to baby-sit her, they spoil her like crazy) and that evening she was cranky, but I thought it was because she hadn't taken a nap and had played hard with the girls, so anyway she woke up crying at 5:30 AM sunday which is so strange because she always sleeps all night. Anyways I got her out of bed and she was burning up, so i figured it was because of the teething thing and gave her some tylenol and rocked her back to sleep, well 8:00 she woke up again, i went to check on her and she was so hot, then she started throwing up and i took her temp and it was over 102. So I called my mom and hubby called my sister and asked both of them to come to the house and finish the food (because we were hosting mothers day and were expecting more than 30 people that afternoon) and off to the ER we went. Of course we get there and they happened to have a new doctor that day I was freiking out, as it was clear he knew nothing about babies. First he runs this thing over her forehead and says she doesn't have a fever. I was TICKED! I know my child, I had never seen her so limp, or pale, or felt her skin so hot! So I argued with him and said I just took it 20m minutes ago and it was high. So after 10 minutes of arguing, he takes it rectally, and wouldn't you know, SHE HAS A FEVER "AGAIN", (and the way he acted you would have thought it was up, went down on the way to the hospital, then spiked back up in that 10 minutes, I mean please, I am not a doctor, but come on that is a no brainer!) He kept insisting it was her teeth. NO!! So then he ordered blood tests, she had elevated WBC's, but he didn't see a need for any abx. SO hubby and I INSISTED he get her pediatrician on the phone, (which he finally does after acting all offended) then when he does, he says YES GIVE HER AN ANTIBIOTIC!! So he does, then they insist that she needs pedialyte and so I get a little down her and 5 minutes later they decide to swab her throat, so what happens? Of Course she vommits all the pedialyte!! DUH! Which by this time she has developed enough of a taste for that she decides she doesn't like it one bit and refuses to drink more. AAAHHHH!!! They call our local hospital "dead"-lawn for a reason! After a few more incidences we were finally able to go home. Lexie was really sick for 2 more days. She did go back to her pediatrician and nobody knows for sure what was wrong or why. It was hopefully the worst mothers day I will ever have. I have to back track on my statement, teething is no longer the worst or hardest part of motherhood! A sick child is! I have NEVER been more scared in my whole life! I Thank God that she is fine! Needless to say I was not a good host that day! But I think everyone understood.