Avery's Hospital Adventure

It all started Tuesday morning, early Tuesday morning Avery was running a fever of 102.5, so Grandma had to keep him home from daycare, she gave him ibuprofen and that brought the fever down. Again Tuesday afternoon his fever returned and again she gave him ibuprofen and again his fever came down. Avery seemed to be doing fine when we got back to town on Tuesday night so Jon and I stayed with our original plan of having Avery spend one more night with Grandma and Grandpa so we could unpack and do some cleaning around the house before we went to pick him up. Because of the fever on Tuesday afternoon Avery again needed to stay home from daycare. It was Wednesday afternoon at 2:00 o’clock in the afternoon Jon and I went to go pick up Avery. He had he had just woken up from a nap  when we got there, we were so excited to see him and he was excited to see us too, but he was warm, I mean really warm. His temp was 104.9 (105 in my book) we gave him some Tylenol and made an appt for him to go see a doctor. His appointment was a 4:00 pm, Avery’s doctor was on vacation so he saw someone new, by the time we got to his appt his temp was at 99.9. They did a strep test and took some blood. 

They took my blood but gave me a bandaid

The strep test was negative and the blood work came back that his white cells were elevated. We left with instructions to alternate giving him Tylenol and ibuprofen  as often as every two hours to break his fever, and an appt to come back on Thursday if things hadn’t gotten better. After a dose of Tylenol and ibuprofen Avery was sleeping fine and keeping him temp down.

3:00 AM rolled around and everything changed. Avery woke up crying and shaking, he wasn’t cold but he wasn’t hot either. When I took him into the light his skin looked grey and his lips were blueish. We were getting ready to take him to the ER when we decided to call 911 instead. When the ambulance arrived they took a look at him took his oxygen levels and decided that some blow by oxygen would do his some good. The EMT rigged up a teddy bear with an oxygen mask so all Avery had to do is hold the bear and the oxygen would blow by his face, it worked great. After Avery started to “pink up” we headed for the Hospital. 

Heading to the hospital

I rode with Avery and Jon met us there.  After the once over by the ER Doc, an RSV test and an x-ray, it was determined that Avery had pneumonia and was admitted to the hospital for observation. 


The rest of the day Tuesday Avery spend playing and reading books, and having visitors stop by  along with having his temperature and O2 levels measured. He started his antibiotic in the morning and had some nebulizer treatments in the afternoon. Avery is defiantly sick but he wasn’t going to let that get playing with all the new toys in the PEDS unit.

Avery favorite hospital toy 

Reading

Hospital isn't so bad

Avery rode up and down the hall in a push car and later when he found a ball he threw and kicked the ball around until bed time. Avery and I spent the night so they could monitor him some more. Only having taken a few very short naps during the day it was great (for all of us) to get a decent nights sleep.

Avery's cage for the night

This morning Avery was discharged after have no more spikes in his fever and his lung sounding clear. He will continue to take an antibiotic and will be on breathing med for a few months, he is already looking so much better and should be back to 100% soon. Through out this past few days Avery has been great, happy most of the time, laughing and smiling for everyone. He let all the doctors and nurses do what they need to do to take care of him. He charmed everyone he met, Jon and are so lucky!