Dr. Valentine...

Alyssa was up ALL night, and when I say all night, I mean ALL night!!! She did not feel well at all. This is the worst she has even been including when she was an infant. She would maybe sleep for 15-45 minutes at a time, but it wasn't a peaceful sleep, she was breathing hard and fast, she was hot, hot, HOT!!! Her temperature was 102.5 in her armpit which means it was more like 103.5 and with Tylenol it only dropped to 103 she would cough and then say ouch and grab her sides, thats when I thought, oh great she has pneumonia. I get pneumonia once a year at least it seems and I know that pain, when you have to cough but you don't want to because it hurts so bad. I felt so helpless, I couldn't do anything to make her feel better, that's the worst part of being a parent, seeing your children, hurt, uncomfortable,sick and being completely helpless in the whole situation. Well, I was debating about going in to the urgent care or waiting the 6 hours til 8am when we could go to the doctor. She ended up falling into a good sleep at about 6am and woke up about 11am and we went in then, to the kidscare. We watched all of Toy Story 2 and watched the first part again, all while waiting to be seen. She didn't try to get down off my lap once, she just lay there in my arms. Then we were called back to be seen by none other than Dr. Valentine on Valentines Day. I didn't notice until we were leaving and I read her name on the prescription. Then they ran a strep test...negative....ear infection...negative, after an otterpop for her red/non-strep throat, an XRAY and 2 princess stickers later the results were pneumonia!! With Pinky Bear, princess blanket, and Alyssa in my arms we went home to get well...now the next obstacle...getting a substitute for our class tomorrow on Valentines Day night...

side note:
A "fun" Spencer family fact. In the last 5 years that Chad and I have had children we have spent 3 of them in the Dr. Office/Instacare on Valentines Day....