Update on Mia

We had to do a follow up with a pediatrician after our ER visit. Now that we are in a larger geographic area, the military allows us to have civilian doctors (the military clinic is too many miles away). I was lucky that I got online, found a participating doctor and got an appt that day. When we got to the appt mid day, Mia's fever was back up to 101 in spite of alternating doses of motrin and tylenol every 3 hours. The doctor also informed us that the ER wants a follow up CT scan (a step up from the Chest xray). In addition to the pneumonia, there was a shadow on lungs, an enlarged lymph node. The dr said it might be a lymph node that shrinks as children grow older (there is a common one in young children), but they need to do a CT for a more complete scan to rule out anything more serious. Her bloodwork came back bad too: low white blood cell count but this could be due to the infection, ear ache and pneumonia, so we have to go back to do a follow up CBC as well- again to rule out anything more serious. If the white blood cell count goes up after a week of antibiotics, chances are it was just due to the infections (which is what we are praying for). Anyway, the dr's visit ended up with another shot of antibiotics. Now Mia has matching boo boos but she is loving all the chocolate milk she is getting (to sneak in all the medicine) and the pedialyte.
And always, she still smiling. What a love!!