ER

So our memorial day weekend didn't end like it was supposed to but I guess that things never do go that way. Harrison came down with a fever and a painful ear on Friday. I took him in and the doctor gave him a zpack. I tried to give it too him a couple times but he ended up throwing it up both times so I gave up. I was supposed to take him back in Sat. for a shot of antibiotics but he seemed better and his ear didn't hurt so I waited. Then Sunday he woke up not doing well. I finally made him choke down (literally) some ibuprofen. He was hanging in there but that night just kept getting worse. That night I took his temp. and he was at 104. He begged and cried not to take any medicine so I was too tired to fight him and told him if he went right to sleep I would take it again in two hours.

Well after 2 hours I took her temp and it was 106.1...I PANICKED!!!! So I took it multiple times and it ended up averaging 105.5, which is still NOT GOOD. I called the nurse and she told me to go to the ER since it was 10 something at night. So I made him choke down some ibuprofen and drove him to the ER. I was so grateful that Ryan was home that night so I could let Mckinley sleep.

When we got there and got checked out his temp had come down to 103 after the ibuprofen I'd given him so they gave him some Tylenol right away to see if it would drop some more. Anyway, 5 hours later Harrison's fever had broke, his bed was covered in sweat, he had an IV and had had some blood culture's and blood tests done (that looked fine), some ear drops and some IV antibiotics. They sent us home with some prescriptions for ear drop and more antibiotics.

The next morning (well a few hours later when I could drag myself out of bed) I called the doctor again and said there was NO WAY he was going to be able to take the new antibiotic ( 1 tsp 4 times a day) when he would throw up 1ml of the other med. So I took him into yet ANOTHER doctor to see how he was. I had given him ibuprofen to take away the little bit of fever that had come back. So when we went to the doctor he was acting fine, ear looked fine, temp was fine, everything was FINE! So he said I didn't have give him the antibiotic if I didn't want to and he thought that he never really had an ear infection to begin with, that it was just his allergies causing pressure in his ear and that the fever was just a nasty virus. Don't you just LOVE the whole medical institution (sorry Dad, not you)? In fact I was starting to get a panic attach just sitting in the ER waiting for the doctor! UGH!