Soon, they'll recognize me

With Gwen's EMG on Thursday of this week, we're on heightened alert for any sign of illness. Evie had some coughing fits, so she got checked out and got a clean bill of health. Perhaps it was a little virus that she's successfully fending off, perhaps it's some type of seasonal allergy developing - not sure.

Of course, that couldn't be our only scare. Monday afternoon Gwen started to not be herself, including a low-grade fever and some slightly labored breathing. So by 6pm we were at the doctor's office, and the answer was that things seemed fine, but the heavy breathing could be better evaluated by the ER. So around 7pm we were back in the ER. Blood sample, chest x-ray and a small cadre of doctors later, there was no definitive cause identified. Since pneumonia and other nasties could take another day to bloom, we were admitted to the children's hospital, again. Around 1:30am we were asleep in our room, and the day began about 6:30am.

Many, many medical folk later, the whole episode was written off as "well, she sure seemed to have had something, but fought it off". Around 6pm on Tuesday, we were all home again.

If we have any more episodes like this, they're going to have a personalized mug of coffee waiting for me on our next arrival, a-la Home Improvement.