For the 5th time in about 10 weeks Gage has come down with a fever. With a temperature of about 102 he’s not such a happy boy about it and it usually has him taking a nap.

The fevers have been unexplained. There’s no vomit, no diarrhea, no other symptoms. Typically when Gage is sick there is so much vomit that I pre-certify an overnight babysitter for Quinn because it means Julian is traveling and IV fluids are in my future. But not as a result of a weekend tequila bender. It’s a process I know well and am comfortable with in our little business of sick kids. We like the known factors. It’s those unknowns that are tricky.

Like coming across a symptom from an unknown origin.

In the last week I’d mentioned the fevers to our two nephrologists during calls about other concerns I have about that lovely urination side effect of ARPKD and the next round of labs. Both said they didn’t know of anything that would be a next symptom in the ARPKD disease progression. So at the request of Dr. Wonderful we’ll be having an extra test performed for the monthly labs (a c-reactive protein test) to see if that shows anything. And we’ll be having labs early tomorrow. So maybe the day after next we’ll know something new.

The important part of this story is that when I left a voice mail for Dr. Wonderful and emailed her about the fever today she listened. I said in my email “Gut feeling. Something is not right.” To which she replied “I agree something is not right” and proceeded to tell me to run the extra test and to get the boy in to see one of our local doctors.

So, in the wise words that I heard hundreds of times in my youth by my mother – “we’ll see.”