I just need to scream… wait I need to do it again… ARGHHHHHH!!!!!! Ok starting to feel better….
So yesterday we kept Colin temp under control and he actually was doing a lot better… In the morning I went to the pharmacy and stocked up on everything that I could imagine so that I will never see a seizure again… a new thermometer, tylenol and Motrin so that if one doesn’t work, I have the ther to alternate with.
I am am REALLY not a fan of giving medicine o even controlling a fever, but with Colin ad his history of fever spikes and having trouble controlling them I don’t ever want to take the chance again… I also picked up the prescription for antibiotics for his sinus infection… again another thing that I would have second guessed but with hi white blood cell count so low his body is just not strong enough to ward off such an infection without a big and long fight… so I welcome the help…
Anyways… he got a first doase at the hopital on sunday, we gave him three doses yesterday and yesterday he started throwing up and had diahrea… we wondered if it was just the virus progressing…
This morning when we got up he had hives and instanty realized that it was a reaction to the antibiotics (penicillin) so I brought Xavier to Daycare early, got them to give him breakfast and headed for the hospital. We waited about 5 minuted for Triage and were coded a priority 2, so we would go pretty fast…. (the waiting time for a priority 3 was about 18 hours!!!!)
About 40 minutes later we got in to see a doctor, got a new precription for a new antibiotic, codiene and benadryl to get the reaction under control and we were out the door…
I passed by a new clients home on the way to the pharmacy and she bought a wrap that I had in stock, answered a few questions about breastfeeding and headed to the pharmcy again….
Got the meds, came home, gave it Colin (2 of them have 10ml doses) ad then he threw it all back up a few seconds later… Arggh…. gave it to him again and he finally kept in down…..
And to top the day off… I started my Period… Like I really needed that today….
But, hey… it confirms my chart and when I think I ovulated….
I’m sorry to hear about Colin’s trouble with high fevers. My children haven’t experienced many fevers. I remember reading something about fever, I think it was this (http://www.whale.to/a/west8.html). You probably know a lot already given your son’s history, but perhaps there is something in the article of value.
Thanks for that link… I have to keep that one for future reference…. I really do hate medicating a fever, I have always been taught that a fever is a good thing and that it shouldn’t be something to worry about really… With Xavier I have never really medicated him when he has had a fever, and I don’t think that that is going to change.. However, Colin had his first fever when he was 2 weeks old and we were hospitalized then for 5 days and then with this and the image of him convusling, I just think that medicating it won’t be too awful just at least to control it from not shooting up too fast… I think the problem with Colin is that he is now in that 4% of children that has gotten convlusions from a fever going up too fast and it is very likely that we will see another convulsion before the age of 5.. I think my way of looking at it now has shifted from “Never medicate a fever” to “I am going to keep a very close eye on a fever and if it starts to go up too fast I will medicate to keep in under control”…. not as much to get rid of the fever but to not have to experience (and have Colin experience) another seizure… I also learned through this experience that it is genetic and my Sister-in-law had it happen 3 times and that I alo has seizures as a child but they were not due to fever and were never explained…