OK. So the latest episode started two nights ago, March 26th.
She went out Saturday evening, March 26, with friends and returned home to pretty significant sciatic pain (1-10, 1 being lowest, 10 being highest) of Level 7. Really painful in her right leg. I massaged her leg to alleviate the pain. The pain traveled from the middle of her back to the top of her right foot. Nothing relieved the pain except for a massage---and that was just temporary.
Today is Monday March 28. She went to school, had a good day, took a late afternoon nap, and then reported not feeling so well after dinner. She took her temperature. It was 99.3 degrees. She has a headache that starts over her right eye and travels up and around the upper right quadrant of her head. She feels hot and cold and achy all over. No other symptoms. Nothing to explain the fever.
Floating Hospital has back-burnered her case. We talked with her previous pediatrician last Friday, March 25. He agreed we need a second opinion. He recommended Dr. Mark Pasternack, a Pediatric Infectious Disease specialist, at Massachusetts General Hospital. I will call tomorrow morning to get the first available appointment with him.
I wonder what level her platelets are. Last they were checked they were at 148. Now with a fever and infection they probably have come down.
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