Outgrowing fevers

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On Tuesday I got a call from our daycare that my two year old

daughter Ella had another fever. Her fevers have been somewhat

irregular now (ranging from 4-6 weeks apart) since she's started

with the prednisone, but so far we feel that we've been able to

manage them very effectively with the prednisone.

Anyway, I was explaining Ella's recurring fevers to a gal at work

this week and to my surprise she said that her niece had suffered

from the same type of fevers from the time she was about a year old

until she was in about 2nd or 3rd grade. This gal told me that at

that time there really was very little known about the disorder, and

her niece suffered for years with high fevers that lasted several

days at a time and had several seizures with the fevers also. She

said that amazingly, her niece grew out of the fevers and that she

is now in her late 20s and just had her first baby.

Then I talked to my mom on Wednesday evening and she said that she

was talking to a gal that she works with whose granddaughter also

had suffered from periodic fevers for years. This woman's

granddaughter eventually outgrew her fevers also.

Although Ella is showing no signs of outgrowing her fevers and she

may never outgrow them, I just wanted to share the two stories of

the lucky gals who eventually outgrew their fevers. They give me

hope that someday Ella can share the same fate.