Thursday Sept 2nd:
Our long holiday weekend started off on Thursday with a call from Ryland's school letting us know that he had a 101 temperature. So Tab went to pick him up around noon, gave him some motrin and he seemed ok for the rest of the afternoon. We thought we were in the clear.
Ryland and I left for Highlands, NC after work and my dad followed us in his car. My mom was already there and we were all looking forward to spending the long weekend in the mountains. Ryland got upset about half way there and cried the rest of the way. It is definitely hard driving long distance with him all by yourself. I am not sure that I will do that again for a while!
Tab left on Thursday night for a hunting trip in Arkansas with the guys. All seemed great and just like we had planned.
Friday Sept 3rd:
Ryland woke up with a 103.6 temperature. He has never had a temp that high before so I think I went through a little spell of shock at first and then the high gear mommy-mode kicked in. We gave him some more motrin but his temperature kept climbing. Since we were 2 hours away from Atlanta we found a doctor in Highlands that would see him but she was not much help. Needless to say my mom, Ryland and I all jumped in the car and headed back to Atlanta and straight to a Childrens Healthcare of Atlanta immediate care location. He did not have any other symptoms ... ears looked good, no runny nose, no cough, no vomiting. His temperature was 104.7 while we were at Childrens and for the first time he started acting like he felt really bad. After bloodwork, a urine sample and a lot of poking they decided to treat it as a bacterial virus and started him on an antiobotic shot (rosefin sp??). He did not have a good reaction to the shot. His already high temperature went up even higher and he got pale and splotchy and started getting the "fever shakes". You could just feel the heat radiating off of him. He laid in my arms with nothing on but a diaper and my mom wiped a wet cloth over him trying to get his temp down. After a while he finally started looking and feeling better. And after 4 1/2 hours of being at Childrens we left and since there was still so many unknowns and his temperature was still at 103 we decided to stay in Vinings and not drive back to Highlands (like we originally planned).
Here is Ryland in the waiting room at Childrens. Even with a 104.7 temp he is still smiling but with dark circles under his eyes :(
Sound asleep, burning up and sweating in the exam room waiting on the doctor ...
This was Ryland right before we left. He was feeling much better and finally ready to play.
Saturday Sept 4th:
Ryland woke up with another 104 temperature and we were back at Childrens for round #2 of the antiobotic shot. Since shot #1 did not go great the day before they decided to split up the antiobotic into 2 shots and give them 30 mins apart. That process went much better but it meant that Ryland had to get 2 shots. He kept his high fever for most of the day and since things were still not getting any better we decided to stay in Vinings for the rest of the weekend.
Showing off one of his many bandaids ...
Sunday Sept 5th:
Ryland woke up with a 101 temperature which was much better than what he has had the last few mornings. Since we left everything in Highlands (clothes, computer, Codi, etc) my dad packed it all up and came back to Atlanta with Codi on Sunday morning. We all went back to Childrens for round #3 of the antiobotic shot. They had all of the test results back and for the most part everything came back normal. They are now thinking that he has a viral infection which means that all we can do is let it run it's course. Tab and everyone that he was with left Arkansas that afternoon to come home. He got home around 10pm and my parents went back to Highlands.
In the waiting room at Childrens ...
In the exam room waiting on the doctor ...
Monday Sept 6th:
So far things are looking better. The highest his temperature has been today was 101.5. He is acting like his normal, playful self and has been giving us the biggest smiles all day. Right now the worst part is the awful diaper rash that all of those high fevers have given him :(
I hope that this is the only time that we have to visit Childrens Healthcare of Atlanta 3 days in a row and over a holiday weekend. But I do not know what we would have done without them!
So far things are looking better. The highest his temperature has been today was 101.5. He is acting like his normal, playful self and has been giving us the biggest smiles all day. Right now the worst part is the awful diaper rash that all of those high fevers have given him :(
I hope that this is the only time that we have to visit Childrens Healthcare of Atlanta 3 days in a row and over a holiday weekend. But I do not know what we would have done without them!
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