Trusting Intuition

"You can either go ahead and go to the Emergency Room or wait and have Gianna seen in the neurosurgery clinic first thing Wednesday morning".  This is the choice we were offered Monday when I called the surgeon's office to ask about some concerns we have with Gianna's shunt.  It's a situation that's not as clearly an emergency as something like, say,  a broken arm, but could potentially either be, a) nothing serious (just a fluctuation in the fluid) or, b) really serious (a possible infection or malfunction of her shunt).  It seems to me that the fluid and pressure may be slowly building back up again in her head, despite our "priming" the shunt.  There's puffiness around the shunt, her fontanel is more full of fluid, she's been more sleepy and fussy than usual, and her eyes look worse to me (more crossed and all-over-the-place).  I had to take about 50 pictures of her in her UK dress on Sunday to get a couple where her eyes looked pretty good.  So.....since I'm writing this Tuesday evening, obviously we chose to wait until Wednesday morning for the clinic visit.  She hasn't thrown-up or had a seizure (the go-to-the-ER-right-away symptoms), so we decided to wait and watch her closely.  An ER visit without a clear emergency seemed like it would (definitely) involve her having to spend hours there and being seen by someone who isn't the surgeon who's most familiar with her, and (possibly) being subjected to tests/procedures/etc. that might be unnecessary for her.  I feel torn between being an overly-cautious parent, and possibly missing something that could really be a problem....  Meanwhile, G's sleeping peacefully this evening without a care in the world.  Time to join her in some sleep and we'll just pray for the best possible news in the morning!