What's up with Hayden?

April 24th was the first time I can pinpoint that Hayden had a scary high fever.  She was lethargic and limp, worse than anything I'd ever seen with one of my kids.  This started a series of high fevers, almost happening like clockwork, every two weeks or so.  Fevers of 103, lasting for days with no other real symptoms; no cough, no nasty nose, no throwing up.  I took her in to the pediatrician in April to get looked over and they couldn't find any reason for the fever.

After this happened a couple more times, I headed back in, although our regular pediatrician was out for the whole month of July so we had to see someone new that we have no history with.  It's not like I'm a crazy, first time mom, running to the doctor because my kid sneezed.  Hayden also had hives so the dr. sent us for blood work to rule out food allergies and any infections.  The blood work came back normal and she instructed us to come back next time she gets a fever.  Two weeks later, another fever so back to the pediatrician we went!  This time, they did a catheter to collect a urine sample.  The culture showed blood and protein so the dr. wanted to treat it as a UTI and sent us on our way with antibiotics.  A couple days later, we get a call that it's NOT a UTI but there is no more info.

Now what??!  I'm frustrated.  I understand that Hayden is a toddler and toddlers pick up germs easily.  She goes to nursery at church now, she sucks her finger and drags her blankie around everywhere.  But this seems a little excessive.

Eating a dumdum sucker after her blood draw

I knew we had Hayden's 18 month well check (late) scheduled at the beginning of August so I was antsy to talk to our regular pediatrician about the whole thing.

Her appointment was today.  Our pediatrician listened to my concerns, definitely felt like this was something to keep on top of and gave me a game plan for the next time the fever happens.  In the mean time, they wanted to re-check her urine by "bagging" her.  They adhere a bag to her girly parts, cut a slit in a diaper and let the bag hang through so you can easily see when she pees.  Hayden was NOT happy about that!!!  She kept grabbing her diaper, saying, "Poop!"  I didn't bring a sippy cup so I had to try to get her to drink from a bottle of water.  Of course she wanted to do it herself, which resulted in her spilling all over her clothes.  After the nurses came in a few times to see if she had peed yet, I decided we had to do something drastic, so I let her play in the sink!  She proceeded to sufficiently soak everything in the near vicinity and when I got her down, Preston said, "Look mom, she's peeing!" haha!  Urine came back normal and we were free to leave.

Oh, and while the ped was listening to Hayden's chest, she heard a noticeable murmur.  I'm pretty sure she's had a slight murmur since she was an infant, but now we get to go see a cardiologist to determine whether or not this murmur is something to be concerned about.