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My son has been sick for the past week, it seems he has/had a virus. He's mostly feeling better now, but over the weekend he had a fever and a cough. Today you almost wouldn't know he was sick. We took my son to the ER on Friday because he was complaining about his throat and we got a letter in his folder saying there was a case of strep in his class, and we didn't want to take any chances. Fortunately my son doesn't have strep. He had a game and pictures this Saturday, he had what I thought was a bad cold so I took him for pictures but took him home directly after. He had seemed to be feeling better when I took him, and it was a very nice day so I figured some fresh air would be good anyway, and where we had to go was walking distance from where we live. I made sure he didn't cough on or touch any of the other kids, but again he had what I still believe was a bad cold. Well he was doing OK for most of the day and then at night he had a high fever, and it didn't seem to be going down with Tylenol, we had given him a Tylenol an hour or two before I took him to the ER again, and his fever was still 102.5 degrees F. Of course I get him to the ER and his fever is gone, go figure. The doctor who I thought looked very young (but he was attractive lol) and who I later found out is only a year older than me, made me feel like it was all in my head, and that it was just a virus and that it was common for those symptoms to last about a week. I tried to explain originally the fever wasn't going away with medication, but of course my kid was acting normal and healthy except for a cough, so they seemed to think I was just being paranoid. I also wanted them to run a flu test to be sure he didn't have that, I honestly don't trust our hospital very much to begin with as they've misdiagnosed people I know many times. I hate when they make you feel like you're crazy. Normally I spend about an hour in one of the rooms waiting to see a doctor, but that night there was no one else in the ER or so it felt like and no sooner do we get back in a room there are 2 nurses and the doctor asking me a thousand questions, which isn't what I'm used to. I'm guessing they were bored lol. That was new territory. I was never so happy for them to leave. Normally my boyfriend goes with me, but he had to work and we were worried about our son, so I took him by myself. It made things harder, because my boyfriend and I usually both have to help hold him down so they can look at his ears, my son hates people looking in his ears. I could tell the doctor was trying to placate me when he came back with results. I hate talking to people as it is, but I sucked it up for my kid and had to deal with people asking me a thousand questions. They weren't rude, but I can read people fairly well. If my son's fever went down right away I wouldn't have taken him in, but when we originally went his fever was still high. The doctor as a whole wasn't horrible. He was nice, but still very young and I could tell he wasn't a parent, or he'd probably be more understanding. I looked him up online because he looked young, and I was curious how old he was, and he is only 30, which means he hasn't been a doctor for very long. I kind of laughed though, because I started thinking about it, most people don't want young doctors, because they aren't as experienced, but how do we think they get experience? No one wants to be their guinea pig, but in order to get good doctors we need to let them treat us and get that much needed experience. I'll laugh if he later has a child and realizes that sometimes as a parents we can't help but be paranoid, and that there are good reasons for it. When your kid is sick and in pain you want to do anything you can for them, even at the expense of others making you feel like you are crazy. I had a legitimate reason for taking my son there that night, because Tylenol should have taken my son's fever down in under an hour, and it didn't. I of course didn't realize it would go down right before we got to the ER, although that seems to be how things always work. This guy is just starting out, so I don't think he fully understands why it is parents like me go in there worried about something he perceives to be no big deal, and until you're a parent and have to see your child sick and miserable you'll never fully understand. I can't say he was annoyed, and he humored me, but he wasn't remotely concerned, which I guess is because to him it wasn't a big deal, to me it was. My son is my world, and I'd do anything to help make him more comfortable. I think a friend of mine had him once too, and she said she heard him say "Just another paranoid parent." As parents, yes we are paranoid, but that means we need to be heard and understood. Hopefully this guy will get it eventually. I will say he was at least nice, despite the fact that he made me feel like I was crazy. I guess you'd have to be there to understand what I'm getting at. I really hope this guy becomes a good doctor, and doesn't end up just dismissing us all as paranoid parents, because sometimes we're onto something.