and we're back

As of yesterday, Dahlia is back in the hospital.  I knew because her immune system is being suppressed, that this would happen sooner or later, but was hoping for a long break from this place! She had been running a fever for a couple of days and was extremely irritable, which is not like her at all.  We called the transplant team and they wanted her to come in. We were told to take her to the emergency room.  Several of my kids have been to the emergency room in the past and it was always a several hour wait before they were seen by anyone.  When we told the receptionist that Dahlia has a heart transplant, we were rushed back to a room.  Dahlia had some blood drawn and an I.V. started. Between Dahlia screaming, the child in the next bed screaming, someone done the hall screaming and seeing a boy come in the E.R. with head trauma, that trip to the E.R. was just a little overwhelming! We were all happy to get out of there, into a more comfortable room on the cardiac floor.  The good new is that the doctors think it is nothing to serious, maybe a urinary tract infection.  Dahlia is getting antibiotics; she hasn't had a fever all day and is back to her normal happy self.  Hopefully we will be out of here by tomorrow.