Part 1 - Illness and Surgery

So much has occurred since my last blog that I will have to divide this update into multiple posts.

Let's start with Nathan's ear infection.....on Wednesday, June 10th, Nathan was diagnosed with an ear infection and started on a 5-day antibiotic. Turns out I had homopholis flu at this time. Antibiotics tear up Nathan's stomach and he was having AWFUL diarrhea. We went to the doctor Monday for a follow up and he still had the ear infection and stomach virus, which he had shared with me and later shared with Jason! There were no more antibiotics to try and with the virus he would not absorb the medication anyway - so we were referred to an ENT for a tubes consultation. We schedule for June 25th.

Wednesday he came home with a fever and Thursday and Friday had 103+. I called our pediatrician but she was out until Friday. I called the Children's Hospital and Nathan saw the Head of ENT at Children's at 5pm. He looked at him and said he needed tubes and we needed to do them tomorrow! He personally made calls but could not get him scheduled until Friday at 7pm. Since they have to fast, we scheduled for Saturday morning. So Friday was spent trying to keep him comfortable. He was also not eating well at all.

Saturday morning arrived and we were at Children's at 6:45am. We did a lot of waiting and walking the halls with Nathan. Finally his surgery was at 9:30am. We were able to go into the OR with him while they administered anesthesia. Eleven long minutes later he was in the recovery room. When he woke we were allowed to go back and see him. He woke up quickly and started getting out of the crib to come to us! He drank apple juice and kept it down no problem. We were then moved back to his room where he was a little fussy and sleepy. He drank milk and kept it down and napped. We were able to leave at 10:45am. He was starving at that time and ate puffs, yogurt and bananas. We then all took a 4 hour nap!

Sunday he was a new child! He was laughing, playing, eating! He had lost from over 24 pounds to under 21 pounds in a week. So he in now making up for lost times!

During all this he had a rash that we got checked out Monday, June 22nd and he has Fifth's Disease. This is just a virus that causes a lacy rash on children. Once the rash has broken out he is no longer contagious - and only a threat to pregnant women now. Thankfully there is no discomforted associated with this parvovirus and no treatment - it will just disappear over time.