Rachel returned from girls' camp Friday overtired & cranky & running a low grade fever. Saturday she was still tired & low grade, but I let her help strike set for a bit anyway cuz she's starting to make friends with some of the girls. Sunday, she was still coughing & fevering so we took her to an InstaCare on our way to drop the little ones at the inlaws' for the night. The doc there seemed almost irritated that we came in & didn't bother to do a culture or look in her ears or anything, just said she had bronchitis & gave me a script for cough syrup w/hydrocodone. We took her home & put her to bed on the couch with a DVD & went on our anniversary date to our favorite uber-expensive restaurant. When we got home, she was already in bed so I went to kiss her goodnight & just 'bout got a blister on my lip from the heat eminating from her forehead. Her fever had spiked to 104! Immediately she got 400mgs of IB, the icewrap on her head & another icepack under her neck while we hit the internet (webMD is great!) looking up symptoms & trying not to panic. Her fever dropped to 102 in 30 minutes so we decided to just watch her. Her fever has hovered between 100 & 102 all week. Last night we ended at the UrgentCare where she was diagnosed with strep and walking pneumonia. That doctor prescribed a Z-pak, so she should be feeling better in a day or 2. It's just so frustrating to know that had the 1st doctor pulled the stick out of his butt & looked at her throat, run a culture & given her the antibiotics then, we wouldn't have had to go in again to another doctor & she would be better by now. Butthead. Thank heavens for this other doc, tho. I think we know which after hours place to stick with from now on when we can't get in to her regular doc.