Here we are at SickKids Emergency

I noticed some purple spots on Emilia's legs inthe afternoon. They are not bumps... rather red/purple dots that look like tiny bruises. Then I suddenly remembered something I had read in the morning on the AboutKidsHealth website on the topic of fever. It said go see a doctor if the baby's fever is accompanied by purple dots that do not go away by pressing on them. We pressed on the dots... they did not disappear. I started worrying what the dots might be. Surpringly and unfortunately the website didn't say why we needed to see a doctor for the purple dots. That left me frantically searching on the internet... and I came across a condition called petechiae or petechial rash. Its cause was things like meningitis. Meningitis??? I tried to not overreact. After all, the internet is just overloaded with TOO MUCH information, much of which from unreliable sources. But I knew I would lose sleep over this however I tried to reassure myself. And our paediatrician was fully booked for today and tomorrow (the receptionist told me to go to an "after-hour clinic" which opens at 6 pm when I called her at 10 in the morning). What do first time parents do... except to take the baby to the busiest emergency for kids in the whole province. It has taken an hour to be assessed by a triage nurse. And it has been more than an hour since the 10 minute assessment. There are lots of families and their wailing babies and toddlers in this waiting room at this hour (2:40am). If not for the mysterious spots, we would not have come at all. We can wait as long as we need to... but I am just praying it's not a serious infection. It started as a simple cold and now I am worrying about meningitis... I feel so sorry for Emilia who had to be dragged out of home in the middle of night.