ER Visit/Fathers Day

Friday I noticed Declan had a little cough, but I didn't think too much of it, then on Saturday evening he started running a fever that quickly shot up above 102 degrees. Because he was under two months they wanted us to take him over to the ER. Carli was kind enough to come over and watch the kids so Adam could go with me and Declan to the ER.

• They gave him ibuprofen to bring down the fever.
• He had a chest x-ray where he had to sit in the Pigg-O-Stat; it looks like some sort of medieval torture device, but is ultimately just an immobilizer and positioner. He did awesome and only cried a little.
• They drew his blood...stuck him in the arm and dug around for quite a while before they gave up and went and got a pediatric nurse to draw blood from the top of his foot OUCH! He screamed bloody murder through most of that ordeal.
• Gave him Tylenol because his fever still was not down.
• Waited and waited for him to leave a urine sample in the little bag, but ended up having to use a catheter which didn't faze him.
• All the tests came back normal and his fever had come down, but they wanted to admit him to the hospital for overnight observation....so at 3:30AM Adam went home to relieve Carli.
• Declan and I rode in an ambulance to the hospital (not out of necessity, just out of policy) where we explained the whole story to the nurse, then tried to sleep; an hour later the in hospital pediatrician came in and examined him and we went over the whole story again. Then we tried to sleep for another hour or two until our pediatrician came in and checked him and we went over the story one last time.
• His fever had stayed down enough so they discharged us that afternoon.

He continued to run a fever for a few days and his cough and congestion got a little worse then he started getting better. All of that and it was just a virus...I know it is better to be safe than sorry and I really am so glad that it turned out to be just a virus.
Needless to say Fathers day was pretty low key. Adam and the older kids picked us up at the hospital Sunday afternoon and we went home and sat around the house; we were so tired that not much else was going to happen. Adam did at least get to open presents! He is such a great husband and father and hope he knows how much we all appreciate him.