Teeth are overrated

Our little one is still sick.  After her "1st Birthday Week Celebration" and all of the guests had left she came down with something.  It has left her with a fever, runny nose, cough and awful middle of the night screaming sessions lasting anywhere from 30 minutes to 2 hours.  The fever is slowly leaving but the night screams have slowly increased.  Luckily, we have both been off these past couple of days since we are not getting much sleep at night.  Throughout all of this, we had her one year appointment and this did not seem to phase the MD.  We explained how she had been sick for nearly 3 weeks with a 6 day lull in the middle and he said, "Sounds like you are moving into the time of her life when she will be getting a cold per month...that usually lasts until they are 2 or so".  We found this to be relieving, not the part about her being sick forever but that she was not critically ill and this all seemed typical to him.  Well, through research this am at about 145, we have concluded that her middle of the night inconsolable screams are from teething.  She is one and still getting her first two teeth.  We knew that she was in pain because the screaming is awfully reminiscent of the first 3.5 months of her life during GERD, colic, and gas when all she did was scream.  We just couldn't believe that it was from her teeth.  Well, it is.  Boy, teeth are overrated and Tylenol is underrated!