Monday night, I picked Ethan up from daycare and the daycare lady mentioned that he was really fussy all day, which hasn't been the norm for him at daycare. I took him home fed him and we snuggled...about an hour and half later he woke up screaming and crying...but not his normal scream or cry. I also noticed he felt hot so I took his temperature...99.9...okay slight fever..we can handle this. So we took some cool cloths and put them around his wrist and he fell asleep. He slept 15 minutes here 15 minutes there but not long .... around midnight he was just screaming again...so unhappy. So I took his temperature...100.1...okay it has gone up but not too much so I tried cooling him off again and he fell asleep again for about 15 minutes. At 12:30 he started screaming...and I felt him and believe it or not he was hotter then he was at midnight...so I took his temperature..101.4..okay now we are getting high. So I woke Pete up and he tried to console Ethan and cuddle Ethan while I called the after hours nurse at the hospital. She said to give him some baby tylenol drops and that should help. So we did and about 30 minutes later he fell asleep for about 2 hours. When he woke up he was in normal Ethan self...temperature normal and smiling and kicking his legs :-)
I took him to daycare and the ladies at daycare said they would watch him and make sure his temperature didn't come back. So I left and came home and started working. About 10:00 Tuesday morning, Jen, our daycare lady, called me because his temperature was 102. So I quickly went to daycare and picked him up and decided I should take him to the doctor because he could have an ear infection and if he did I need to get some antibiotics. We got to the doctors office and they tested him for an ear infection and a cold and both came back normal. The doctor said that because he is under 3 months of age that a temperature that high is dangerous and they need to find out the reason so they were going to walk us over to the emergency room where they would do more tests. They asked me if I needed to call someone to be with me at the er...I told them no I should be okay.
We get to the ER and they take his temperature and it is back down to 99.9 and take his little blood pressure and everything and everything comes back normal. They then tell me they really need to find the source of the fever and why it is spiking so much so they were going to do a chest xray, ultrasound, take blood, and put a catheter in so they can get some urine...once I heard what they were doing I realized I needed someone there...I called Pete and he said he would finish what he was doing and then head to the office, change his clothes, and head home. In the meantime, our friend Sarah came and sat with me in the hospital. First thing they did was put the catheter in to get some urine...Ethan just screamed and cried...I knew he was in pain but I couldn't fix it! Once they got some urine they removed the catheter and then let me pick him up...so I picked him up and sang to him and just held him close to me and he calmed down...about 5 minutes later they took his blood...they had to lay him on the hospital bed and one nurse held his arm while the other took the blood--they had to take blood from both arm...Ethan screamed and cried ... and I shed tears as well because my baby boy was hurting and mama couldn't fix him :-( After they drew the blood I picked him up and cuddled him close to me and just held him and he cried for a little bit and then calmed down and started to fall asleep.
About 15 minutes later the nurse came to take us to do his ultrasound and xray. We did the xray of his chest because back in December, Pete became very sick with pneumonia, and they wanted to make sure I wasn't carrying some pneumonia and transporting it to Ethan. Luckily, his chest xrays and ultrasound came back normal. They decided that because all his tests came back normal, they were going to give him a shot of antibiotics and let us take him home, but we had to do a follow up with the doctor the next day. Luckily, Pete had gotten there right after the chest xray and ultrasound so he was able to help me try to calm Ethan down while he got the shot of antibiotics. Then Pete picked him up and he cuddled right up to his daddy and fell asleep in the hospital room.
Our follow up appointment with the doctor went well...looks like he just had a virus...I'm sure this is the first of many sicknesses to come and glad that the staff at the hospital took his fever serious...you never know what could happen with your sweet precious child.
Here is a picture i took of Ethan and Pete in the hospital...someone was very happy to see their daddy and just fell right asleep in his arms. (Not to mention, I was soooooo happy to see him!)
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