another doctor visit

Finley has been having fevers for the last week and a half. Last Tuesday we went to Urgent Care and he was diagnosed with pink eye. Last Thursday we were back in Urgent Care because Finley was having a reaction to the pink eye meds. Yesterday, I took him to his primary care physician, Dr. Bell to have her look into the fevers he's been having. First off, she found out that my thermometer is wrong. She thought the batteries were dying. It has been reading high, which is a relief since I thought he was having fevers of 102. They are actually around 100.0 to 100.5. Still something to check into though. She looked him over really well, doing a full exam and when she found nothing wrong, she decided to get a urinalysis. I wondered how they were going to get urine from a 14 month old and then the nurse walked in with a weird looking bag. So I don't get too graphic, they taped a bag around him and then strapped his diaper back on so he couldn't pull on the bag. Then, it was a waiting game. They told me to give him water and then let him play in the water. I gave him his sippy cup and then I ran his hands under the faucet in the room. When nothing happened, I decided to just stick his feet in the water. So, off his clothes went and in the sink went Finley. He LOVED it! And more importantly, it worked. Here are a few pictures of the exciting afternoon at the doctor's office.

When I first put him in the sink, he was trying to drink from the faucet.


More of him trying to drink from the faucet.


And more...I promise, he does get water. I don't know why he got so thirsty.


Now he was just playing.

Trying to get further into the sink. I think he wanted to take a bath.

And he succeeded. His whole onesie was soaking wet.

So I took it off, checked his bag and when I saw it was still dry, I stuck him back in. By this time, there was about a 3 foot radius around the sink that was soaking wet.

Finally in the sink playing in the warm water...and then...success! I checked his diaper and we had our specimen.

His urine turned out to be perfectly normal, so now we wait. If he's still having the fevers through the weekend, I'll take him in on Monday and Dr. Bell will get some blood. There's still a chance that he could just be working really hard on his 1-year molars, but better safe than sorry.

Finley had kind of a rough day with fevering, but this evening he had a lot of fun playing on the floor with Daddy. We're so used to him being so happy that we really miss it when he's not feeling well. Hopefully, the fever is gone tomorrow and he wakes up a happy boy!