E-Man visits the ER

Oh what a night. 

Tonight was our normal Thursday night meal swap with our friends/neighbors.  It started off much like any other Thursday evening.  However, E-Man had these funky red marks on his face.  He had them since he got up from nap.  Honestly it looked like when I was at the park this morning that I forgot to put sunscreen on his nose and he burnt, but then there were more spots than just his nose.  Well after refusing dinner, then a hotdog, and finally some birthday cake I started thinking something was up.  I mean seriously, what kid passes up birthday cake?!  Well I assure you it isn't mine.  ;) 

So I felt him and he seemed a bit warm to me.  Devon gave me this book to help figure it out, and the first question was if he was running a fever over 100.4.  I took his temp (under arm and it was 100.8).  Well that book didn't help from there on.  But he started getting really snuggly and then really sleepy.  I was starting to really get a bad feeling about him and we were going to call the pediatrician.  Then he started losing consciousness.  It was all I could do to keep him awake and his body was completely limp.  I started to panic while The Husband called the ped.  They told us to take him to the ER.  Thankfully our wonderful friends kept (and ended up giving a bath to *THANK YOU!!*) K-Girl for us and we rushed off. 

On the way to the hospital E-Man kept nodding off and his breathing was really fast.  He also started chewing his tongue which worried me that maybe he was having an allergic reaction to something and was swelling.  We just couldn't get to the hospital soon enough for me. 

Once we were there they really did move quickly.  We didn't have to wait too long for him to be seen.  They took us back to the room and checked him out.  They took his temp and it was 103 something.  They wanted to get ibuprofen into him as soon as they could.  Meanwhile, preparing that he may have a seizure if his temp continued to climb so quickly, telling me that he would probably have to get x-rays, an IV for fluids, and possibly even a catheter to check for a bladder infection.  I was in tears worrying about all of this.  Finally a nurse comes in with the syringe of meds.  I tried to get E-Man to take them, but he was fighting it and just as I got the last bit in he threw up multiple times.  At that point we had to move on to a suppository to get the meds into him.  Once they were in he fell asleep for a good long while on my chest.  It wasn't that good kind of sleep, instead I was constantly watching him to make sure he was still breathing. 

Then they took us back to the waiting room to wait for the next thing.  At that point The Husband decided to go home and take care of K-Girl and get E-Man and myself clean clothes.  His parents came in to sit with her until we got home.  While he was away they called us back for the x-rays.  If you have not experienced x-rays with a wee one consider yourself lucky.  They had me place him in this contraption that resembled a form of torture instead.  E-Man was screaming and I was crying right along with him.  There's this table with a hole cut out and a little plastic seat resembling a bicycle seat in it.  You put them down into that and then there are these two pieces of curved plastic that closes around him keeping his arms tight above his head.  They velcro closed and keep him stationary.  Awful thing.  Necessary, but awful.  Once those were over we got to sit in the waiting room again...until they called us back for take two because the side view didn't turn out well.  Finally after that we got to go back to the main waiting room to see what was next. 

The Husband got back and by this time the meds had started kicking in and E-Man was feeling a bit better and begging me for a "Na" (snack/drink).  The Husband got him animal crackers out of the machine and he had an entire sippy downed in no time.  With him acting like himself again we really hoped that we wouldn't have to go through with the IV or anything else.  We went back to the other room and the doctor checked him out again.  His temp was down to 101 at that point and she told us that they found what looks to be some spots of pneumonia on the chest x-rays.  (They read them but a tech will double check them in the morning to make sure everything checks out and that is correct.)  So she said we would not have to go through with anything else.  We were given a prescription for antibiotics to treat that, directions of how to control his fever, and told to get with our pediatrician on Tuesday to check how he is.  In the meantime if he gets worse we are to get back to the ER. 

Finally at 11:00 tonight we got home and were able to put K-Girl to bed.  E-Man waited for his daddy to go get the meds so he could get the first dose in his system and some Motrin before bed.  At 11:30 he was finally able to go to bed.  Now all is quiet, except for the pounding in my head.

Oh what a night. 

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