Random thoughts--blah blah
So here I sit at work bored. My son was in the hospital for a week a few months ago. He had a fever for a few days, doctors said treat the fever and that he had no other symptoms visible. The next day the left side of his neck was swollen, so he was admitted to the hospital. Turns out to be some kind of antibiotic-resistant infection of some sort..he was sent home and got better. Well, he's had a fever for 2 days now, and isn't showing any symptoms of why. Doctor says it seems like it may be a viral infection of some kind. De ja vu--all over again. I'm hoping this isn't the same thing again. The whole time he was being treated before, he never seemed to be in pain or upset(same as the current situation), except when they had to hook up his I.V. As you can imagine, finding a vein on a (then 9 month old) baby is difficult due to the baby fat. He had I.V.'s in 4 different places that week, all which required at LEAST 5 or 6 "tries." He was absolutely traumatized by this..I mean for God's sake they had to put one in his forehead!(and it wasn't a first try success either so he was stuck about 4 times in the head with a needle) If this time around he needs hospitalization, I hope they have a little more success with finding veins. I just hope he will get over the fever without needing any treatment at all. My poor little man, I can't stand to hear those gut-wrenching screams when they poke him with those needles. I wish I knew what we could do to prevent these weird infections, but according to the doctors he'd have to be put in some kind of air-tight enclosure from the outside world for that to happen. And I'm sure that living in Katrina-ville isn't much of a help either.