Late night check-up

Last night we had a late night adventure to the wonderful Emergency Room. Yesterday Thad was a little fussy and had a creeping temperature. I called our Pediatrician's after hours clinic and talked with the on call doc at 4:00 pm when his temperature was 100.7 degrees. She said to keep a close eye on him and if it got over 102.5 to call her back. He went to sleep around 9ish and woke up at midnight and was burning up. We checked his temp and it was 102.7. So we called the Dr. again and she said with his heart history it would be a good idea to take him to get checked out. So off we went the the E.R. My stomach was in knots just thinking every possible scenario. After 4 hours, a bunch of pokes and a very tired baby we finally came home. The Dr. thought he had a ear infection in his right ear so he gave him a good dose of antibiotics and Motrin to help with the fever. They wanted to start a I.V. to draw blood and push the antibiotics through the I.V. but after two long pokes and a screaming Thad we said no more! They wanted to try his other arm but since he has chunky arms weren't able to get a vein. We couldn't watch him in pain anymore so we chose the shot for the antibiotic. Other than a little fussy he was never pulling on his ears or showing any other signs of sickness. He seemed like his normal self but definitely wanted to be held.

Hanging out in my big hospital bed!

They had to put warm packs on his hands to try to find a vein. It was kind of funny watching him try and get the packs off. He was trying to shake the packs off his hands.

Even after being dragged to the hospital at 12 am he was still a happy baby.

We had a follow up checkup with our Pediatrician today and his redness in his right ear had disappeared. His fever broke and you can tell he is feeling good again. He weighed 21 lbs 8 oz.