Prayers

Ok, well Clint and I are officially FRUSTRATED!!! We've been fighting some sort of cold or sinus infection with Madelyn for over a month now. It started with a bad cough at night, so after we got back from the wedding we took her to the doctor and they told us she had a sinus infection and gave us an antibiotic. After about 10 days, Madelyn didn't seem much better, so I called the doctor and asked for another medicine. We've been on the new one for over a week now.
Monday night I came home from work and found a happy girl, playing with Daddy and hanging out while I cooked dinner. All of a sudden, like we flipped a switch, she started crying and was inconsolable. She wouldn't eat anything, and when I let her out of her high chair, she walked into the den, found her blankie, and laid down on the floor and cried. I finally took the hint and gave her a bath. She was asleep that night by 6:40.
I thought for sure she would be up early Tuesday morning, but I had to wake her up at 7:00. I guess that should have been my first clue that something wasn't right. That night I stayed at work late, and when I got home Clint casually mentioned that Madelyn was running about 103.5 fever. Of course, I freaked out and took her temperature, which was still 101.7 2 hours after Tylenol. I called and made her ANOTHER doctor appointment for Wednesday.
Madelyn seemed fine Wednesday morning, so I decided to take her to the sitter. I concluded that after being on antibiotics for 3 weeks, she couldn't be contagious. By 1:00 the sitter called and said I needed to pick her up because she's running high fever and crying.
We went to the doctor and basically still don't know anything. It's so frustrating to have people tell me that there's basically nothing wrong with Madelyn when we know she's not acting normal. The doctor said she still had a sinus infection (which seems nuts after all the medicine!!) and her throat was sore, but both of thoose looked minor. Her ears and evertyhign else looked good. But he said the only reason you usually have someone so young run such high fever is because of a virus. Luckily he did some blood work, because that revealed there is no virus. She has some sort of bacterial infection, but no one seems concerned to find out WHAT it is. Instead he gave us ANOTHER antibiotic. By the time we got home yesterday, Madleyn was again running almost 104 fever. When i put her down she would fall every time she walked, and she was shaking uncontrollably for a while. We gave her motrin, but had all ready decided if the fever got much higher we were going to the ER. Both Clint and I were worried about her having a seizure from the fever. Luckily the fever went down, and we were able to keep it under 103 for the rest of the night.
I stayed home today to be with her, but I'm so busy at work right now that I have to go back tomorrow. She didn't run much fever today, I think the high was only about 101. So we're praying that this antibiotic will work!
Please just pray that whatever it is will go away, and that the doctors will help us figure it out otherwise. Like the doctor told me, it will either get better or worse, so we're praying for better!
Clint has been feeling kind of rotten, saying his chest hurts. Anyone who knows Clint knows that he NEVER takes any medicine, but he's been taking medicine constantly this week. Being true to his character though, he never complained about feeling bad, so I didn't realize how bad it was until today he coughed up blood. I"m trying to convince him to go to the doctor, but he's a stubborn man! He's agreed to go Monday if he's not feeling better. I'm worried he's got bronchitis or something.
Anyway, it should be a pretty laid back weekend, so hopefully our house can heal.
Keep us in your prayers.....