The Wee Man is sick...

He is on the mend now...But, it all started on Thursday night (we got home Tuesday night) with a fever that we had under control with medication. By Saturday all Sully could do was lay on me and sleep - he would not even eat. It spiked to over 105 Saturday night so we went to urgent care. They said he had an ear infection. By Monday morning the fever was again over 105 after 2 days of vomiting and a lot of mucous. Poor baby! The screening nurse wanted him in the ER!

So, we get him in there and his fever was DOWN to 105 (rectally, he loved that...). They ran and got cool water and cloths and we sponged him down to cool him off. They said we were lucky he did not have a febrile seizure. They said he was obviously working something else besides an ear infection through his system and wanted to do some tests. So they gave him an IV with antibiotics to jump start the healing of the ear infection and whatever else may be wrong. They gave him the IV (which he promptly ripped out so they had to reinsert it) and took blood and gave him fluids as well.

Then it was time for the chest x-ray. Because one has to remain still for an x-ray, the machine they use for a toddler is like some Medieval torture device! It is a plastic case that the baby is placed in and it holds him still while someone holds his arms straight up in the air, then it rotates. Alan did the work with this one but I heard the screams all through the halls, it was awful! Sully did have a chance to show off his super human strength to the x-ray tech, though...

In the end, the x-ray showed no fluid in his lungs and the bloodwork came back fine - just some NASTY virus running through his system. Poor baby. He is finally eating again, almost normally.

Here is the poor babe with his IV waiting to get his chest x-ray.