Emergency?

In a couple words - we've had an interesting couple of days.

Friday evening, Kayson didn't seem right - he'd been fighting a low grade fever off and on. I had marked it up to teeth and/or a cold. He didn't sleep well at all either on Friday night - up quite a bit crying hard. Saturday we tried to lay-low and relax. We did go visit the Reeds, while our house was being shown. Ryan hadn't met Kipton yet - they are all doing well. Kayson wasn't really himself then... was very tired and cranky. Saturday afternoon Kayson's temp had reached a whopping 102. I instantly gave him Motrin and we tried to relax. I called the Mercy Nurse to see if there was anything else we could do - basically just watch him. If we get concerned, we should just go with our instincts and take him in. By 7:15, he'd been snoozing off and on in between lots of crying and fussing... and his temp had reached 103. I looked at Ryan with tears and said we need to take him in. We headed to the emergency room.

They took all his vitals, including giving him another dose of Motrin, and we just watched him for awhile. At the time (around 8:15, his temp was 102.5). In between nurses checking on him and trying to snooze, they did a chest Xray, just in case... which came back looking great. They also checked to see if he had influenza and that came back negative. So - the doctor marked this up to the common cold/virus and we'll have to have this run it's course. That's a hard thing to do... We were there from around 8:15 til nearly 11:00. We all were exhausted. We need keep his temp down, and to do that we will alternate Motrin and Tylenol every 3 hours.

I've realized worrying about your own son/daughter is completely different than worrying about someone else that's still as important to you. When I saw that temp result of 103, I am not going to lie - I paniced a little. I instantly thought of the febrile seizures that could possibly happen with high fevers... I felt that it was important to take him in b/c Ryan and I were at a loss on what to do. Kayson is our son, ours - and we have to do what's best for him and hopefully we are doing the right thing at all times, or at least try to.

Today has been iffy - up and down for Kayson... his temp has stayed under control (which is wonderful), but those meltdowns seem to arrive about every hour! We are getting through it and we only hope that we get a GOOD SLEEP TONIGHT!