Hospital Stay

Monday we went to the doctor and that night treated Lucas for a rash. Tuesday he was really grumpy after nap and got over it (remember the layout I made?). Wednesday same thing after nap but it lasted longer, he had a fever  (101.4, gave him tylenol) and really nasty fluid filled, pimple-like bruised looking thing on his foot. You  can see it here if you really want to. I called Charlie and asked him to call and make me an appointment because there was NO WAY a nurse would hear me long enough to do it myself.

Ok .. so at 5:30 we went to the after hours appointment. When we got there and back into our room he had an “interesting” (as we would heear MANY times that night) rash. It looked like a rash common in scarlet fever or strep throat and he  still had a fever after taking the tylenol 2 hours before. They did a rapid swab for that and it came back negative so we then wenet for a CBC. I won’t get into how ticked the tecchs almost made me but let’s just say they did NOT wrap him in a sheet (he has always HATED to be wrapped in a blanket) and put him on a table while they did it. I held him and it worked just fine.

A couple of pics from the doctor ( Will was a really good boy and very patient!!)

So we wait a little more.  White count come back at 20,000. She can’t figure anything out so she brings in another doctor. He doesnt know either. They tell us to go to Dell Childrens and just as ee are about to give him motrin and he throws up……… yikes.

We call my friend Shawn and she tells me Will can go there. We do that and get ourselves drive through. The ER process went pretty quickly (not sure if Dell chldren’s is just that awesome, if they werent busy or if the doctor calling ahead helped).

This is probably more rambling then anyone wants to hear but I want to keep a record of it anyways…

Ok .. we get back to our ER room and after hearing interestinga few times they drain the ugly foot thing and send the swab off to the lab … ooh  and they did another rapid swab test on throat since it looks a little or a lot red depending on who looks.

They start antibiotics and admit him for the night.

We both stay, of course and get very little sleep. The next day we get another negative on strep so they say maybe hand, foot and mouth.  That doesnt really add up but it’s the next “best thing”. They stop all antibioticsT and  want to keep him another night just in case. This is how we slept both nights and days for naps…. (good gravy I look like death warmed over…. but peanut is surely cute!)

I call my sister and she comes into town (2.5 hours away) and helps us out with Will.

Much later that day they find our he has STAPH..or at least staph growing in the culture from foot swab.

Grandma Patti also went to the house since we had a bit of a disaster with Will and the hosptial.  When we found out  it was staph we didnt want him touching anything in the room Things worked out in the end and we may have over reacted a little but we were stressed and tired.. what can I say?

We had another rough night and the yesterday we got to come home with 7 days of antibioics. That was long winded and probably confusing.

Video of him playing while we were in the hospital and a huge shout out to their Child Life department and the hospital in general. It turns out we know several people employeed by Dell Children’s