Delia is still sick

[pegkerr]

She was close to 103 this morning. This has been going on since Friday morning. I just got back from the clinic with her. The mono test was negative (although they explained that if it's just starting, it could be a false negative). They are testing her for Lyme's disease, because of that camping trip we took, although the doctor thought that was unlikely. Her white blood cell count and platelet counts were a little low, which makes them think it's a virus. So another day of rest and forcing fluids.

Delia did not like having her blood drawn. She Did Not Like It, and she wept in protest, but she held her arm very still, and we praised her extravagently for her bravery. I'm going down now to see if she would like me to do a craft project with her.

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The earliest "adult" conversation I can remember having with Aliera centered around having blood drawn. She was four and a half I think. Since she was off the scale small at the time they wanted to check for growth hormone deficiency. She didn't want to have the blood drawn, and argued that it was her body, and she ought to make decisions about it. I could only partially explain why we wanted to do this, but this was not an arbitrary action and if I didn't think it was important I wouldn't ask her to go through it. She eventually reluctantly allowed me to override her autonomy in this case, and took it all very calmly in a "giving me enough rope to hang myself" kind of way.