Our ER experience

Yesterday was a pretty decent day for Shaylan. She was up moving around and even ventured outside for a little bit. I was able to get a nap which is a rare occurance but was much needed and Shaylan fell asleep in the sofa around 7:30 last night. She was running a slight temp around 7 so I gave her tylenol and she went to sleep. I was in bed around 10:30 and fell right to sleep. At 2:15 Shaylan came in my room saying she was scared. I went to pick her up and she was burning up. I took her temp and it was 102.9. The doctor instructed us to call if her temp went over 101 but a low grade temp was to be expected. I called the ENT and the doc on call called me back. He said to just watch her and call the pediatrician in the morning. Jeff did not like that answer because why would the one doc say to call if it went over 101 and this one said to wait until morning. Well we decided since we are paying out the wazoo for the cobra that we were going to use it and take her to the ER to be on the safe side. I called my dad and he came back to sit with Katie who was sound asleep. This was around 2:45. When we got to the ER she was still running high 101. They put us in a room and gave her some motrin (I did not realize and wish now that I knew before that if a child is running a really high temp that you can give them motrin an hour after you give them tylenol and it should bring the temp down.) She was complaining her belly hurt and they heard her cough so they wanted a pee pee sample and a chest x-ray. As we were sitting there I smelt something. I asked Shaylan if she tooted and she said yes but her belly did not hurt as bad. Ah gas. So we got up to use the potty and she tooted a big one and did a little pee but it was enough. As we were coming out of the bathroom the x-ray doc was waiting for us so we went down there. She did really well getting the x-ray and when I picked her up to take her back to the room she tooted again. At this point her fever was mostly gone and she was actually talking our ears off. She was sitting on Jeffs lap just tooting away. No wonder her belly hurt. She really has not had anything that would get her bowels moving so I am sure she is a little constipated. Hopefully if she gets some fruits in her she will get moving along. The doc came in and said everything looked okay but to keep our eyes on her and if she runs another high temp to use the tylenol/motrin combo and take her to the pediatrician on Friday. She had a slight cold or allergies before the surgery so the doc thinks her body was just in overdrive fighting off the surgery and whatever else she may have. We got home around 5 am and Jeff went to bed because he had to go to work today. It is "take your child to work day" so he did not want to disappoint Katie who has been looking forward to this day for the last 2 weeks. I tried to sleep with Shaylan on our airbed in the livingroom. She was not tired so we put cartoons on. I dozed for about 30 mins until Jeff came in and asked me to get Katie up and dressed. I made their lunches and got Katie ready. They left at 6:30 and I layed down again. I am figuring I fell asleep around 7 and at this point Shaylan was sound asleep. I slept until 10:30 and she slept until 11. Yes I feel like half the day is gone but the way I was feeling and the lack of sleep I have had, I dont care. So far there is no fever but she is just laying around which I am fine with. She needs to rest up and fight the bug she has and let her little body heal. I am praying tonight is a better night and that we actually get a full nights sleep. We really need it.