Broc has been running a fever for 2 days.Very low to start with and then it got higher and higher.Tues morning he napped around 10am and was very quiet the whole day just laying on the couch.He then fell asleep around 5pm.Not eating and drinking much all day.His eyes were very glassy.He also developed a weird rash on parts of his body.We are not sure if it was the antibiotic that he was on for his strep or something viral.
We called the ped and he was full so he said take him to urgent care.Urgent care said that they could not handle his case.The dr never even looked at him at all.never listened to him.Nothing.....
We arrive at ER and they take us in straight away as I had told the U.C. Dr to call and make sure we go back as soon as we get there.At least that was done.The looked at him and clearly they could see that he was sick.He just layed there. His eyes were still glassy and very red.They drew blood and did a chest x-ray.
Broc was sleeping through all of this and poor Mark and daddy Mark were falling asleep too.
The dr came back and said that he wanted to show me something.He showed me that he has pneumonia on his lung.They said that he needs IV antibiotics for it.We had to wait another hour for the meds to come from the hospital pharmacy and then they came and put an IV in him and hooked him up.
We waited another 1/2 hour for his meds to go in.By this time little Mark was beyond tired and daddy was sleeping on the desk in the room.Poor daddy gets up at 4.30am for work.That would be in 5 hours time.
We finally left the ER at around 12am. Neither of us had eaten anything as he we headed out as soon as Mark came home from work.We came home made some toast and went to bed around 1am.
Broc is seeing the ped today for a follow-up and a strep test too.The pulm thinks that he could have a flu virus /para virus too.I will update later on today.
Poor little guy. I am glad he was able to rest through a lot of the stuff. I am praying he is feeling better soon and nothing spreads to others in your family.
ReplyDeleteI hope he gets over the pneumonia soon. We had our second sick Christmas in 3 years this year too. Two years back, ours ended with a week in the hospital too. Just make sure that they adjust his blood thinner levels if he's not eating and still keeping his meds down. We ended up in the hospital longer that time because our HLHS child was getting his Coumadin at night through his g-tube, so it was the only thing he kept down. His INR went through the roof and he started throwing up blood. (Not fun) We'll be praying for you.
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