3 times a charm

Talked to Caden's doctor last night and she is pretty sure it's strep throat and told us we could wait to see her today in her office. But if we wanted we could go to Urgent Care before hand.
So I sent Mike and Caden off, it's so hard to take all three to the office, and he gets there and they were unexpectedly closed.
So okay, how about go to another location in the morning when they open at 7 before you have to head off to your meeting. Closed again! Don't open until 8 now! Think we should start calling?
So I call the office to get him in and the receptionist told us we couldn't be seen today even though Dr. Sudha said we could.
I start to cry. Call it hormones, lack of sleep, but I call it complete sensitivity for my son who had this wonderful week of Easter parties to go to and now most likely won't be able to go because of being contagious and still sick. I had to hang up I was so choked up.
So Mike cancels his morning (turns out the guy was going to anyway) and takes Caden back to the second Urgent Care. They see him right away, agree too it must be strep and do 3 swab tests. All negative!! So now we wait on the culture to see if it's positive. In the meantime, they are told he has to stay home before the fever of 103 breaks (we are now on our 4th day), and if the culture is positive then they will give antibiotics. Also to keep doing what we were doing with his fever, motrin, tylenol, lukewarm baths, popsicles for hydration. Mike also asked about scarlet fever, and they definitely don't think it's that.
Just breaks my heart, he has been talking about his Easter party all school all week, it's tomorrow. I don't dare chance sending him for fear of exposing Ms. Angela who is in early stages of pregnancy. So I will plan a special party for him here at home. I hope his fever breaks so he can attend his egg hunt on Friday .. and if not, again I will plan a special one and hopefully gather some friends to join in on the impromptu fun...