Fevered Weekend

kasper — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 04:17:31 +0000

What a messed up weekend! My poor little man has had a rough couple of days. Thursday night he started to get feverish, but we managed to get it down with some Tylenol. Friday I got the dreaded call from daycare, but they didn’t need me to come and get him, they were just telling me that his temperature was 100°C and it was okay for them to give him Tylenol. Saturday afternoon after his nap his temp spiked to 104°C and I took him to Emerg to see what was going on. On the way over he vomited several times so sitting in the waiting room was a treat reeking of puke. I ended up throwing out the dollar store mittens that he managed to fill with vomit. Ewww. When we were finally seen the doctor had a look into his ears and immediately saw the problem. Baby D was suffering from an ear infection. I didn’t doubt his expertise, but I was surprised since he hadn’t been rubbing his ears or anything. We filled the prescription for Amoxicillin and went home to relax. We started his meds that night, but he managed to throw up shortly thereafter so we just left it for the following day.
Sunday morning I got up late, but found hubby cuddling a sleeping baby D on the couch. Since it was only 9:30 I was surprised that he was asleep as naptime isn’t till at least 10:30/11:00. At least he had managed to eat breakfast and get some meds into him and no vomiting. BUT… when hubby and I looked at him he was covered in angry red welts! WTF?! Luckily the children’s clinic was just about to open so we rushed him over to be seen and were told that this seemed to be a reaction to the Amoxicillin. I found this strange since he’s had it before, but apparently that’s not unusual. We promptly threw out the meds and were given a new prescription to now get rid of the hives.
Strangely the welts seemed to fade before we even got the new stuff into him, but when we woke up this morning you’d think that we had beaten him overnight! Yesterday I was all set to get him a medic alert bracelet alerting emergency personnel that he was allergic to penicillin. After getting ourselves squeezed in to see baby D’s pediatrician this afternoon, he thinks it’s possible that he is allergic, but that it’s also possible that it’s a coincidence and that there’s something else causing the hives. So I just have to keep on with the new stuff we got from the clinic. What a mess! We originally got meds to treat the fever and ear infection, now we’re no longer even worried about anything but the hives that were the result of treating those problems. Go figure!

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kasper — Wed, 21 May 2008 14:20:24 +0000

It has been an absolutely bizarr-o week. Hubby has been home due to illness and has totally thrown off my schedule! I don’t know what it is, but when he’s home we both just get so lazy. He drives for a living, so when he’s being plagued by chest pains and dizzyness it’s not really a good idea to have him behind the wheel. I’m quite ticked off at his doctor at the moment. He went in to see her on Monday and had tests done – blood tests and an ECG, and was told that the results would be in by the end of the week and that we’d hear back when they were in. As of yesterday there was no word so being his “secretary” I called to find out what the deal was. I left a message in the morning to have the doctor call us back and found out that she was working until 16:00. By 15:35 without a call I called back to see what was going on. Left another message and was told that the doctor usually returned calls after business hours. Wanna guess? Yup. No call back again. So once again I call back and leave a message on the machine stating that I’d called and left 2 messages, that neither were returned and that we still didn’t know the outcome of the tests and he still wasn’t feeling any better. So this morning I got a call back from the receptionist to tell me that they don’t give results over the phone, that if no call is made then we are to assume that everything is okay, and that the doctor wasn’t in today. Okay, if tests were done for a yearly physical exam then don’t call me back when everything is fine (even though my doctor does), but when someone comes in complaining of chest pains, dizzyness and lethargy a call back should be made. Besides the doctor told hubby that if the tests came back negative then he would be back in ASAP for more tests as there was clearly something going on. WTF?! So instead of the doctor doing her job I now have hubby becoming Dr. Google and he has decided that he has Aortic Dissection, the same thing that John Ritter died of but was misdiagnosed. The worst part now is that his boss has called him back in to work because they’re so short staffed right now. I hope everything goes okay tomorrow. I keep telling him to take it slow and easy and to pull over and relax whenever necessary, but he’s a man and rarely listens to anything I have to say.

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