3 little Miracles

3 little Miracles

Saturday, June 12, 2010

Sick little J

Our little man is not doing well AGAIN.  As you know he had ear tube surgery at the beginning of the week on Monday.  Yesterday he fell asleep at the table, which is TOTALLY not him so I KNEW something was up . . . . . and it was.
His temp was 102.6.  J's temperature was helped some by some ibuprofen and a nap but he continued to get temps like this the rest of the evening.  THEN at 2:24 in the morning he came screaming out of his room into ours and he was boiling to the touch, I checked his temp and it was 104.1.  I was dressed in moments and ready to head for the ER, but my MoG convinced me to slow down and see if we could help him get his temp down.  So we put him in a cool bath right away to help bring down his temp and gave him another dose of ibuprofen, which he promptly threw up.  With the aid of the cold bath, cold compresses against his body, and stripping him down to a diaper only, and the ceiling fan on full blast, his temp came down and he settled back down to sleep.  However, when he woke up this morning at 7ish his temp was back to 103.6.  So I arranged for D to hang with mom and dad, packed up J for a trip to the emergency room, and I took my niece Hilary with me just in case they needed to take x-rays for some reason (being preggo I can't go in the x-ray room).  We were taken in very quickly and they determined that J has Step Throat.
That's right after almost a year of monthly ear infections and finally having ear tube surgery . . . . the same week of the surgery J gets Strep Throat.  So J has been resting in my bed most of this afternoon, but he moved out to the living room to play when daddy got home from work and I went down for a nap.  However, when I woke up from my nap I found him like this on the living room sofa.
So of course I checked his temp and found after two doses of amoxicillin plus 3 rounds of ibuprofen throughout the day, J's temp at 6:34 this evening was back to 104.8 . . . . . so into a cold bath he went.

Please pray that these extremely high temps will stop as more of the amoxicillin get into his system and that this is just a fluke and not the beginning of constant strep throat for little J.

5 comments:

  1. I would call the doc and have them give him something besides amoxicillin. We went through strep 8 times before they finally took blaze's tonsils and adenoids out and amox never worked and he would end up with pneumonia from the drainage and on breathing treatments. I would ask them for Augmentin. I am praying for the little guy though!! I do hope he gets to feeling better quickly.

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  2. did you hear about http://eardoc.info for treating ear infections in a non invasive way? did you try to use it before doing the tubes?

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  3. I never heard about the eardoc before we did ear tube surgery. Wish I had, I would have been willing to give it a try before doing the surgery. We did look at alternative noninvasive practices before doing the ear tubes, but we felt that this was the best option with what we were being presented.

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  4. What a rough week it's been for you sweet little family. With 4 kids I know how lucky we are that none of them have had ear infections - I feel so bad that some kids have to battle them one after the other! I hope that you are able to get his temps back to normal - those fevers are so scary.

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  5. I'm praying for your sweet little guy.

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