At the hospital, we waited for about twenty minutes before we were called in, and if you have ever gone to the emergency room here, then you know that that was FAST! Apparently, the pediatric emergency is a lot faster. In the adult emergency, you’d have to be caught in the jaws of a lion with your head dangling by one vein before you get seen. Otherwise, you will wait until your illness almost sends you to your maker.<\/p>\n
While I was getting dressed and packing for the hospital, I was crying. While we were driving there, I was crying. In the hospital room, I was still crying. They checked her temperature, and she was 104. Aaahh!! Doctor, is this regular feefa or spirishua feefa? Did they send it from the village?<\/em><\/p>\n Immediately, she was given Children’s Motrin. Not sure what was ailing her, they checked for ear infections. Negative. Then the doctor said they had to check her urine for infections. Since you cannot send Ada Verastic into the bathroom with a urine cup, the only way to get clean urine was to put in a catheter. More crying – for both me and her. It was a tiny, little catheter, but still, it was difficult to watch. They got the urine and took it for testing.<\/p>\n By the time they returned, her fever had reduced. She still had a fever, but it was not as high. However, it was obvious that she was feeling better. She had gone back to babbling very loudly; you could hear her from the hallway. So, we waited anxiously for the doctor to tell us what was wrong with our baby.<\/p>\n My people, she was teething. It was just about a week prior that she had started releasing her first set of teeth – one up and one down. And it was these two tiny, little teeth that caused the spike in her temperature.<\/p>\n Ada Verastic on the hospital. The littlest, most adorable patient I’ve ever seen.<\/p><\/div>\n I knew prior to this that teething could cause fever, but in the moment that she had the fever, everything I knew and everything I had read just flew right out of my head. I completely forgot everything. We took our teething baby home where she has lived happily ever after. The next morning, I bought a bottle of Children’s Motrin. She had a little fever the next day, and I was right there with the medicine, feeling like an expert fever reducer. It was past 4 in the morning by the time we went to bed.<\/p>\n![\"Ad](\"https:\/\/verastic.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Ada-Verastic-In-The-Hospital.jpg\")