Hospital and Hiccups

Hospital:
Over the past few weeks we have gotten our fill of Boys Town Hospital.  Last weekend we took Emma to get checked for a UTI (negative), and then we had to take her for a high fever just yesterday, and their verdict was a virus, probably a stomach virus with the stomach pain and vomiting.  Needless to say, Emma isn't feeling terribly loving towards the doctor's office right now!  It seems like before she got tubes in her ears, everything eventually lead to an ear infection, but that's not the case now, and for that I'm grateful.  However, it just is aggrivating when you spend your time and money and they say that there isn't anything they can do for her and just to keep her hydrated and giving her medicine to control the fever.  It almost makes me wonder why I took her in the first place if I knew in the back of my mind what they were going to say.  (I do know why I took her.....but still it's aggrivating!) 

The lastest incident started up yesterday morning with a fever of 102.2, which continued to rise throughout the day, and wasn't being helped by medicine.  When it reached 105 after her nap, we decided enough messing around, and took her to the Urgent Care at the hospital.  They did a strep test (negative), and then gave us the schpiel of it being a stomach virus, and blah blah blah.  Now, mind you, the nurse was very thorough and checked for meningitis, appendicitus, etc....but still.....a virus...something that can't be treated and has to run it's course?!  Again!  I hate that diagnosis.  So anyways, after waking up with a very high fever in the night, we decided to keep her home today.  She woke up with a fever in the morning of 103.5, and it continued to creep up until she could have her next dose of medicine.  Then this afternoon after waking up from her nap (burning hot, I might add), she proceeds to throw up in bed :(  Thus she got her second bath of the day, this one, not nearly as loved as the first!  So now, we will be together at home again tomorrow, and as much as I hate missing work and miss my other babies there, I know that the only way she's going to get better is if she's in her own home and is able to rest as much as she needs.

Hiccups:
I remember when I was pregnant with Emma, she seemed to have the hiccups every evening, for multiple times!  Up until the past two weeks this go-around, I hadn't noticed our soon-to-be newest addition having them.  Then a few nights ago, I could feel the tell-tale little "bump-bump-bump" of them.....and in fact, I think she has them right now!  Only 6 more weeks until my/her due date!  Yikes!!!!  I suddenly feel the pressing urge to shave my legs ;)