I thought I had survived the entire school year without even a sniffle.......close but....nope!!! After being knocked down and out for all of last week with a horrible cold myself...........now the kids have been sick since Thursday...........Dominic woke up with a fever of 104 in the middle of the night. He continued to run a fever of between 101-103 for days. After the first 3 days he started with a bad cough, which for my kids means we need to bring out the nebulizer for breathing treatments! Jojo was also running a fever, only he never gets high ones, he maxed out at 100 on his worst day. They both have been coughing soooooo bad, especially at night. After having a fever for 5 days, his temp is finally normal today. This was his last chance to get it down, doctor said if he still had it today, he would need to see him again!!!
I spent most of last night up with Dominic, poor little guy even throws up from coughing so hard. He was trying to sleep on the recliner, me on the couch. Ugh....we have all been cooped up in the house for way too long!
Jojo's speech is really coming along! Daddy took him to therapy last week when I was sick and this week we haven't been there because the kids are sick. He is still working on his clarity and on expanding his length of phrases and sentences. He sometimes will not be able to get a word out, though he knows exactly what he wants to say. That has frustrated him lately and it is very difficult to watch him struggle with that. For example he had these three little animals he was playing with, a giraffe, a zebra, and an elephant. I held up the giraffe and asked him what animal it was.......he paused and said ummm.....so I asked again and he said very quietly and with hesitation....."zebra?" He knows that wasn't correct but couldn't get out the correct word. If I ask him which one is the giraffe, he immediately picks the right one without hesitation.....it is a speech/language issue. He is still having trouble making the h, w, and y sounds. Those he should be able to say at his age. His therapist has also started to work on correct placement of the mouth/tongue for the "l" and the "r" will be a later developing sound so we haven't started to work on that one yet.
He is such a sweet little guy. He is very huggy/cuddly and always says "I love you" to all of us. He is such a helper, loves to clean up toys!!! I can't believe he is growing up so quickly. He is Dominic's shadow and gets hurt feelings if Dominic wants to play alone. The only big issue I am having with him is potty time..........he wants NOTHING to do with it.........
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Trip to the ER
Let me start from 3am Tuesday morning.....
Dominic wakes me up because right above his "privates" hurts. (area of the bladder) He was in pain when he was standing or sitting, but was fine when laying down. So we were up with him the remainder of the night/early morning. Dave went into work and I made all of the arrangements to keep the boys home from school and therapy. (It took 5 phone calls) I called the pediatrician first thing when they opened to schedule Dominic an appointment.
Meanwhile Jojo upon waking up was screaming hysterically the moment I took him out of his bed saying "my neck" "I no feel good" I brought him downstairs and made him comfortable on the couch. He didn't want to eat or move. I called the pediatrician and tried to get him in ASAP but the soonest they could see him was at 3pm along with Dominic. I didn't think he needed to go to ER, he didn't have a fever, started to eat a little and was comfortable when laying a certain way. If I picked him up or he moved his head, it was horrible......I have never seen him in so much pain.
Luckily Dave was able to leave work a little early to come help me out with the trip to the doc. At this point Jojo had not stood up or walked AT ALL throughout the day, very scary. He wouldn't move from the couch.
Once we were to the doctor's office we were told the Dominic had blood in his urine and the he may have a small hernia. She couldn't feel one but said it can come and go if it is small. We will just have to keep watching him. As for the blood in the urine, she has no idea why except from some kind of irritation, and will have to repeat the urine in a couple of days. Just keep a watch on him.
Jojo was running a low grade temp there 99.2 and was inconsolable when asked to move his head. His doctor suspected torticollis but coupled with the temp, the fact he wouldn't walk at all, and the fact he had been sick with a cold the week before told us he would need to go to the Emergency Room right from the office. She called the ER so they would be expecting us.
We dropped Dominic off to my parents and headed to the hospital. After the trauma of the IV, collecting urine, rectal temp, and CT scan.........we were home 7 hours later! The pediatrician had been concerned about him having a retropharyngeal abcess (way back in the throat where it couldn't be seen w/o a CT scan) so they wanted to rule that out along with about 3 or 4 other things that were very very scary!!! They were very concerned that he still wouldn't stand up.(the doctor's tried, it just hurt him too much)
It ended up being an atypical case of torticollis (basically muscle spasms in the neck that were cause his neck to be stiff and all of his pain) most likely brought on as a side effect of his respiratory virus he had the week before. They also found he had ketones in his urine, that were most likely because he was burning fat from not eating. He can't afford that!!! He is still struggling to gain weight, he was about 27 lbs when they weighed him at the hospital. He will be 3 next month and still hasn't tripled his birth weight!!
I was thrilled that they let us come home and found nothing more serious! That poor little guy just can't seem to catch a break!!! He was absolutely AMAZING, just laid in the bed with his blankie for 7 hours watching crappy hospital TV channels (no cartoons) with no food or anything and didn't complain once! In fact he was flirting with one of the female doctors, flashing his dimples and being charming!! He did get called a girl twice ( which I still don't get, it must be the hair) Dave and I were not quite so content... obviously worried sick and very tired (had been up since 3am) having to take turns on the one chair we had to sit on!!
He is doing MUCH better today! I'm just keeping on Motrin and letting him rest.
Dominic wakes me up because right above his "privates" hurts. (area of the bladder) He was in pain when he was standing or sitting, but was fine when laying down. So we were up with him the remainder of the night/early morning. Dave went into work and I made all of the arrangements to keep the boys home from school and therapy. (It took 5 phone calls) I called the pediatrician first thing when they opened to schedule Dominic an appointment.
Meanwhile Jojo upon waking up was screaming hysterically the moment I took him out of his bed saying "my neck" "I no feel good" I brought him downstairs and made him comfortable on the couch. He didn't want to eat or move. I called the pediatrician and tried to get him in ASAP but the soonest they could see him was at 3pm along with Dominic. I didn't think he needed to go to ER, he didn't have a fever, started to eat a little and was comfortable when laying a certain way. If I picked him up or he moved his head, it was horrible......I have never seen him in so much pain.
Luckily Dave was able to leave work a little early to come help me out with the trip to the doc. At this point Jojo had not stood up or walked AT ALL throughout the day, very scary. He wouldn't move from the couch.
Once we were to the doctor's office we were told the Dominic had blood in his urine and the he may have a small hernia. She couldn't feel one but said it can come and go if it is small. We will just have to keep watching him. As for the blood in the urine, she has no idea why except from some kind of irritation, and will have to repeat the urine in a couple of days. Just keep a watch on him.
Jojo was running a low grade temp there 99.2 and was inconsolable when asked to move his head. His doctor suspected torticollis but coupled with the temp, the fact he wouldn't walk at all, and the fact he had been sick with a cold the week before told us he would need to go to the Emergency Room right from the office. She called the ER so they would be expecting us.
We dropped Dominic off to my parents and headed to the hospital. After the trauma of the IV, collecting urine, rectal temp, and CT scan.........we were home 7 hours later! The pediatrician had been concerned about him having a retropharyngeal abcess (way back in the throat where it couldn't be seen w/o a CT scan) so they wanted to rule that out along with about 3 or 4 other things that were very very scary!!! They were very concerned that he still wouldn't stand up.(the doctor's tried, it just hurt him too much)
It ended up being an atypical case of torticollis (basically muscle spasms in the neck that were cause his neck to be stiff and all of his pain) most likely brought on as a side effect of his respiratory virus he had the week before. They also found he had ketones in his urine, that were most likely because he was burning fat from not eating. He can't afford that!!! He is still struggling to gain weight, he was about 27 lbs when they weighed him at the hospital. He will be 3 next month and still hasn't tripled his birth weight!!
I was thrilled that they let us come home and found nothing more serious! That poor little guy just can't seem to catch a break!!! He was absolutely AMAZING, just laid in the bed with his blankie for 7 hours watching crappy hospital TV channels (no cartoons) with no food or anything and didn't complain once! In fact he was flirting with one of the female doctors, flashing his dimples and being charming!! He did get called a girl twice ( which I still don't get, it must be the hair) Dave and I were not quite so content... obviously worried sick and very tired (had been up since 3am) having to take turns on the one chair we had to sit on!!
He is doing MUCH better today! I'm just keeping on Motrin and letting him rest.
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