One More Trick

As you may have been able to tell from the last 7 million posts, we have had tons of Halloween fun this year, so by Sunday, the actual day of Halloween, I thought we were partied clean out.

But there was one last scare. Adele was a bit "out of it" for the festivities on Saturday. And then all day Sunday she was sleepy, and feverish. She would not eat, and sat on the couch looking lethargically at movies for 6 hours. Despite doses of Tylenol and Motrin, her fever was riding somewhere around 101-103 ish and, about 8:30 PM, it hit 105.

I took her into the ER, where this guy, who said he was a doctor, ordered a throat swab to check for strep, a chest x-ray, and some other fun tests. The test were performed by a nurse with pink crimped hair in a side pony-tail, Debbie Gibson style, and a guy with David Bowie hair and an arm full of fake tattoos. The entire ER staff was dressed as though the 80's had returned from the dead.

Tests showed that Adele had really elevated white blood cell counts which they told me meant she was fighting off a "super gnarly" infection. She had some gunk in her chest x-rays, an ear infection, which he said were both little infections, but her kidneys were badly infected.

So, a man in a Led Zeppelin shirt and corresponding hair-do came in and gave my poor baby an IV. Debbie Gibson nurse administered a Popsicle and a pacifier (which now has teeth marks in it as it was given to her just before they did the IV). The Popsicle was rejected.
We got home early in the morning, and Adele is taking an oral antibiotic, fever/pain reducers, and sleeping like a log.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!