Avery being sick

Last Friday (Jan 18th) Avery came down with a fever. Between Kent and I we were up with her all night trying to get her to sleep and console her as she was extremely fussy yet lethargic and very much out of it. I was petrified we were going to loose her. By morning she seemed to be doing better but would spike a temperature every few hours. After her second dose of baby Tylenol I decided to call the Janeway help line (the Janeway being the local childrens hospital). The nurse told me all babies under 3 months who have a fever need to be seen by a doctor. When I got off the phone Avery didn't have a temperature and we thought maybe she was on the mend. After about an hour her temp spiked again and we went in to Janeway ER. It was packed and I was very discouraged. Before leaving I had taken her temp just by holding the thermometer against her neck and it read 39.1, so I knew she probably was much hotter. Thankfully because of her temp and age we were the next ones to go in and we bypassed the wait. I was so grateful.
In triage her temp was 40.1. I was very worried. They gave her Tylenol, collected blood, started an IV, collected more blood for blood cultures and did a chest xray and then the Pediatric Doc came to see us. She basically said we were there to stay for at least 3 days. They don't mess around with little babies and they just jump right in with antibiotic treatment and find out what the cause later. They figured it could have been 2 or 3 things. 1. a urinary track infection, 2. pneumonia, or 3. Influenza. We played the waiting game until the preliminary report came back from the blood and urine cultures. It was a UTI (urinary track infection). It took 48 hours to get the results but in the mean time she was recieving IV antibiotics and was still having a high temp every few hours which they treated with Tylenol. On Sunday night at around midnight her temperature finally came down and stayed down. I felt a lot better and felt relieved that my baby was out of the worst of things.
Tuesday we went for an ultra sound of her urinary system and waited for the results from that. Turns out she has hydronephrosis which means her kidney on the inside has been stretched in the area where the urine collects before going into the bladder. The plan is for her to be on antibiotics for 14 days total and then have another test in 2 weeks.