Hey dears. So this is something that no parent wants to have to do but recently we had to take bub to a ER. Lets start at the beginning.
This starts on a Thursday, bub woke up around 2:30 am with a bad cough, enough to make me get up and go check on him. He was a little warm and had a runny nose & my first thought was "Oh great RSV." Gave him some medicine & he feel back to sleep, but you could see he did not feel well. I called in that day & took him so the doctor. Everything we test for was negative, they didn't have a test RSV but he had all the symptoms so we were going to treat him like he did have RSV (which there is none really, it has to run its course). So we headed home & he was on a rotations of Tylenol & Zarbees Cough & Mucus.
Friday & Saturday bub did great, didn't really run a temperature. Sunday is when things started to turn bad. That afternoon he was more fussy & just wasn't himself. He was still eating and drinking though. Monday he had a temperature that just wouldn't go down & after seeing the doctor again that morning & retesting. It was decided that it was still just RSV, started him on antibiotics. He also had this sore pop up on his hip in his diaper area too which went from small to big in a few hours. So he went home with my parents for the rest of the day.
When I checked in on him that afternoon around 4:30 they said he had stopped drinking & didn't want to eat, he also just wanted to lay there (which isn't my child at all). So I made the decision to leave work early since we were basically done for the day & went home to see for myself how bub was. He wasn't well. He just wanted to lay against me & would whine. He temperature still wouldn't come down. So I made the decision to bring him to ER because the last thing I wanted was for him to get admitted.
So long story short, they got us in really quickly & were really friendly. They started an IV (just in case) & also used it to draw some labs. So end story was they gave him medicine to bring down his temperature, his flu, strep, x-ray, & all labs were negative. RSV was positive like we thought. The sore was diagnosed as a boil. The started him on another antibiotic along with the one he was given that morning. Luckily no fluids were needed & he's also been fever free since. I took off the Tuesday with him just in case, but he did well. He still is on his antibiotics. He had a few days to where by that afternoon he was exhausted but he has since recouped. His boil is looking so much better too. Cough is still lingering but that's usually the last thing that goes away.
So yeah that was my fun filled week!
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