Busy Bees

It's been really busy in our house the past couple weeks. Last Sunday (Nov. 8) we all woke up sick. I felt better within a few days, but Kev seemed to get worse and worse each day. We brought him to the doctor on Tuesday where they diagnosed him with the Flu. They didn't test for which type of flu (reg., H1N1, etc.) so they treated him like it was the worse (H1N1-swine). Then to make things worse he woke up Friday throwing up. We called the doc and she said that she thought the vomiting was separate. So now Kev had an ear infection, the flu, and a 24 hour stomach virus. He finally felt better on Saturday (Nov. 14) after over $100 in prescriptions later! Thank goodness because I had to take care of EVERYTHING while he was in quarantine (our bedroom) away from the kids and myself.

To back track to Wednesday (Nov. 11), I noticed Lindon had a little bit of blood in his stool. He stool had been green and mucus for a couple days before that. I called Dr Worley and was scheduled to bring Lindon in the next morning to see Dr Hubbell (Dr Worley was off Thursday). Dr Hubbell looked Lindon over, took a stool sample to send off to the lab, and referred us to a Pediatric Gastroenterologist, Dr Alaswad. Monday we had an appt with Dr Alaswad, who thought it was an allergy and told me not to eat diary, eggs, soy, nuts, beef, and one more thing. (I can't remember the last one.) On Tuesday night (Nov. 17) around 6pm I got a phone call from Dr Hubbell saying that the stool cultures came back and were positive for Salmonella. He called in a prescription of Amoxicillin which I picked up around 10 on Wednesday morning. Not an hour later I got a call from Dr Worley saying that he had talked to the CDC and a doctor with a background in Infectious Diseases, and they all said that since Lindon is under 3 months old (he's 2.5 months) he had to get the antibiotics intravenously.

Before we headed to the hospital he wanted to see Lindon in his office. I called my sis to come get Claire, and I packed some clothes for all of us. We saw Dr Worley around 3:45pm, and he sent us to Baptist Hospital around 4pm with our admit papers. We got there at 4 and weren't even registered until 5:30pm. As soon as we were put into our room they took Lindon to the exam room to get vitals, measurements, and the IV started. (He hated that!) He did good though.

GETTING HIS IV


So we've been here since Wednesday evening and will be here for 7-10 days. He first stool culture they did here at the hospital came back negative, but Dr Ezeki (the infectious disease doc) said it was pretty normal to get a negative with one sample and a positive with another.

If all this wasn't enough they came in around 11pm last night and said that his blood culture tested positive for gram-negative. This either means that the Salmonella has spread to the blood stream or the culture was contaminated. We should know in a day or two when the results come back.


SHOWING OFF HIS OUCHIE!




My poor little man! He's a trooper though. He doesn't even look sick. He's smiling, laughing, and is a happy camper. He's giving all the nurses "baby fever". haha We love our little Lindon so much and are praying that he gets better soon without any complications. Keep us in your thoughts and prayers, and we will try to keep everyone posted!

HAPPY MAN!