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Well two weeks later and we were back in the ER again. This time it was for Savannah. She had been out of sorts for about a day, but nothing overtly wrong with her. I laid her down for a nap about 4 and when she woke up I thought she was warm but passed it off as she had just woken up. About 15 minutes later, it seemed much longer since she was shrieking at the top of her lungs, I felt her head again and she was still hot. I got the thermometer that runs across the forehead and took hers, it read 105.9. Okay I am a moron, I can't even use the dumb thermometer on my kid. I went the other direction, 105.7. Okay, now I feel even more stupid. I ran it across my head, 98.8. Now I was slightly alarmed. I ran it on her again 105.9. Okay, now the grilled cheeses were burning but I needed another thermometer. I quickly flipped the sandwiches and started rooting in every cabinet, no thermometer. I am a mother, I should have more than one stupid thermometer! Finally in Jaesen's undersink cabinet I found one. Of course it was there, because he really needed the extra thermometer while he was gone. So the poor girl had to have her temp taken the other way and in the short time she would let it stay in position it read 104.9. I yelled at the boys to scarf down their grilled cheeses, tried to call a babysitter. Who was I kidding? It was 615 on a Friday night, not a soul available, so lucky me I got to drag 3 kids to the ER for what I was sure was going to be a banner night. We spent 5 glorious hours there, getting urine samples, xrays, blood drawn, throwing up (her, not me) and trying to get an IV into the poor dear. She was a great patient though and as long as I sang to her she was fairly calm. I only wish the seat Jack was in had a seatbelt, he was up and down and up and down I was ready to smack him. All in all the boys did great and we watched cartoon movies that they had on the tv. Finally just before midnight we left with the diagnosis of a virus, keep a close eye on her and keep her hydrated. She is just back down for a nap, but her fever has almost gone and that is huge. Now all of my kids have been seen at this ER, what an accomplishment!