Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Fun at 2:30 am!!!

Our week has been an interesting one for sure!!
Collin had a fever of 100.2 on Sunday- did not think much of it.
On Monday he had 103.1 fever- I called the doctors office and they said exactly what I expected them to say- give tylenol and as long as he is eating, and happy then just watch.
So Monday, I was home with him and he acted completely normal.

On Tuesday morning at 2:30 Collin woke up screaming. 
This is pretty uncommon since he sleeps amazing.
When I went in to pick him up he was burning up.
I took his temp and it was 105.7.
OMG!!!
Now I am not the type of Mom to panic but this made me nervous.
We called the answering service for our doctor and they advised us to go to the ER because the fever was so high.  
Also gave him tylenol, took all his clothes off, and put a wet cloth on him.

So we headed to FairOaks at 3:30 in the morning.  
We checked in and with in the 10 minutes we were in a private room.  
Collin was such a champ, he was just sleeping in my arms.



We waited about 1 hour to see the doctor but our nurse was awesome!
The ended up getting a Chest X-Ray, urine, RSV/FLU swab.
They requested blood cultures but we declined them until the other results came back as this would involve an IV- this was at the recommendation of our awesome nurse.  
And in the end I am so happy because we ended up not doing the blood cultures as Sepsis is very unlikely.  


 It took about another 2 hours for all the results to get back. 
Thankfully I had my bag packed with yogi snacks and things to occupy our child.
Notice how happy he is even with a fever!!!


Then the results came back- Viral Bronchitis with left Pneumonia.  
YIKES!!!
I mean we made it over a year without 1 sick visit and with 1 major cold,
so when you get sick boy you are going to do a good job at it.
We were lucky because he had no respiratory issues, which I am grateful for.

So home on Amoxillicin we were discharged almost 4 hours after we entered
VERY VERY TIRED BUT GLAD WE WENT.  

It is now Wednesday night and the fever has been trending down.
He woke up this morning and it was just 100.2.
We had our follow up appointment with our doctor today and got signed off that he is doing so much better. 

All and all I can not really complain- other than being a little fussy,
Collin has been the best sick kid every- especially when he just wanted me to read to him for an hour while were rocked together.