Poor Kiddo

I am very thankful that Shelby doesn't get sick very often--a common cold once in a while, but since the tubes in her ears we have been lucky. BUT when she does get sick she lays one out for everybody to feel.
I ended up missing my meeting yesterday in Miles City so I could get in her to the Doctor....she had woken up on Tuesday with a sore throat, but our house is really dry and I have been waking the same way. She didn't complain that day at all about it, but that night after her shower (an early one mind you as she was all muddy from finding a puddle outside) she said her throat hurt again. She played for most of the night, but by 8:00 we noticed she was pretty warm...lo and behold a fever of 99.2. Not high, but she usually runs around at the higher 97's, really low 98's. Gave her some ibuprofen & sent her to bed. At midnight she woke up with her voice nearly gone and her throat hurting bad. My first thought was strep, so I figured on taking her in by then (even though there was no fever this time). Well, at 2:00 she came down again with a HORRIBlE-yes barky sounding-cough. I figured we were on a bout of croup again. Her fever at that time was about 99.8. She woke up at 6:30 feeling okay, and when I temped her at 7:00 she was a 99.2, but by 7:30 her face was flushed and she was at 100.1.
SO, off to the Doctor we went. She was very lethargic...so not her--just dazed and confused with the glassy-eyed look all the way to Miles. We FINALLY got into the doc after 11:00--fever was at 100.7 and the quick strep test came back negative, but the Doc is figuring it probably-after 2 days of incubation-will be positive. I have to call back tomorrow to find out for sure. We started her on Amoxicillian last night and she gave me a script for Prednisone if we need it for the croup.
I bought a new cool mist humidifer (they don't even sell the filters for our other one anymore) and we used that last night. She ran a fever off and on all day, but last night got scary when she was about to top 103....fevers freak me out, but the Ibuprofen brought it down and she slept until almost 8:00 (she would still be asleep if I didn't go up there to check on her before leaving for work). Her voice sounded a lot better after she got up, so I am hoping she gets to feeling better soon. She is spending the day with Daddy (I have a meeting at one of the schools at 2:30), then I have tomorrow off and we will start getting ready to head to Papa and Grandma's house this weekend. I haven't gotten any phone calls this AM, so hopefully she is doing okay!!!
She has never had strep before, so this would be a first...we get croup almost every year, so that is nothing new. Last year is was really bad, and her coughing wasn't bad last night, so hopefully that humidifier does the trick for her. Keeping my fingers crossed!