Hospital Stay

Merrill was admitted to Children's Hospital around 5am this morning.  We had been up since 4am Sunday morning with 104 temperature.  Sunday afternoon it spiked back to 103 and we took her on down to Children's South.  When we got there her temp was 104.5.  They made us strip her down and give her a sponge bath.  They inserted a catheter and ran a urinalysis.  They drew blood from her arm, and did a chest xray.  All checking for signs of a bacterial infection.  Nothing showed up and they were most concerned with the fact that she was running a fever with no other symptoms.  They sent us to Downtown Children's where they performed more bloodwork and inserted an iv stunt... they did a neck xray which showed some infection built up in fluid, but nothing abnormal... They performed a lumbar puncture to check for meningitis and then they did a CT scan of her neck to double check that fluid pocket.  They couldn't find anything, so they decided to admit us since she's had a fever for 4 days with no signs of improvement.  Right now we're waiting on bloodwork to cultivate and then the doctors will meet about her in the morning to discuss where to go next.  Thank you all for your thoughts and prayers, we really appreciate them.  All our love and kisses from Merrill!