When Joel got home Parker had a slight turn around where he seemed really happy and was laughing, playing and chasing Joel around and we were encouraged that he was doing better and this might be a fluke! Before he went down to sleep though he felt warmer than normal and his temp confirmed that he was not doing well at 105.3 degrees. We put him to bed anyways and I called the on-call nurse.
After the gauntlet of questions from the nurse she told us to head to the ER to see what was wrong. We got Parker up and headed off on a long adventure! The short version is this....we were there for four hours until almost 1am, they checked his ears, throat, did blood work, tried to do a straight catheter but had no luck getting any urine, chest x-rays and every test under the sun and came up with nothing. Parker didn't like the actual tests very much but loved being in a new room with a stool to play with, lots of chairs to sit in, our undivided attention, his cute Tiger gown and the stickers and stuffed animal he got.
In the end they just ended up giving him an injection of some strong antibiotics which they were hoping would fix whatever was going on. We had to check in with his pediatrician the next day and get another dose of the antibiotics.
Poor Joel had such a busy week already planned and then to add a night of being unproductive and a lack of sleep to the mix was hard! I felt so bad for him, but was thankful to have him there with me!
I couldn't bear to think of taking pictures of Parker at the hospital because he felt so sick, but once there he was doing so great that I wish I had taken my camera. He looked so cute in the little hospital gown! He willingly showed off his stickers for the camera the next day.
