Parental Rite of Passage

Everyone knows there are certain rites of passage that almost all parents must go through. Yesterday we went through another one of those. The trip to the ER.

Our daughter started acting a little strange yesterday morning. Turns out that she was getting sick. She started off in the morning not wanting to eat and just not being herself. Not long after getting work I got a call from my wife that my daughter had thrown up in the car. Throughout the day her condition got worse and at one point had a fever over 104. Acting on the recomendation of our pediatrician, we headed off the the hospitol.

To make a long relatively boring story short, we were at the hospitol until about 9:15pm. Our daughter held up pretty well considering the strange surroundings. Not too long before we left, the doctor told us that there were 4 out of 5 kids that evening with pneumonia(sp?). We were lucky and were the 1 out of 5 that did not. The diagnosis was a simple ear infection. How an ear infection can cause a 104 fever I don't know, but I'm happy to be home with a sleeping child and medication to take care of the infection.

There's still more to come about our vegas trip when I'm a little more awake.