The Sutherlin's: Cook's ER...

Well the last 32-48 hours have been crazy here! Connor started a fever yesterday morning and I figured it was just him teething (he did just cut his top right and I see the top left right under the gums). Anyway, it never went down and just kept going up even after having Tylenol! That made me really nervous so we called our after hours nurse at our Dr.'s office and she said to take him to Cook Children's ER downtown. This was at about 2 am! He had not been his normal self most of the day and was refusing to eat which he never does so I knew something was wrong! After talking about it for a good while we decided to wait and see if he could get some sleep after the last dose we gave him and then go from there. Well this morning he was still coughing going on 3 weeks now and fever was still present so we took him to the ER! When we checked in it was still 104! So after all the testing and X rays we were sent home diagnosed with a bad viral infection!!! Boo nothing you can do for that just wait it out and treat the symptoms with more Tylenol. He hadn't eaten since the night before and couldn't keep anything down. Tomorrow we will be following up with our pediatrician and thank goodness I have the day off so we can all continue to rest and get him feeling better!

This really is completely different having to see your child go through testing and being poked and messed with instead of me which I have been use to most of my life! I don't mind needles at all except when they are hurting my baby! Thank goodness for having our parents close by because Mammie (Jason's mom) brought us lunch and held him for us while we could take a quick hour nap and my parents brought over dinner! We truly blessed to have our families close by!

So far so good lets hope tonight continues in this direction! Here are some pictures from our first hospital ER trip!