There and back

The past few days have been pretty hectic. It all started early Sunday morning when Crue spiked a fever of 103. Joe and I immediately called the after hours clinic. They told us as long as he's not vomiting and doesn't seem to be in any pain to just bring him in around 10:00 when the clinic opens. So we take him in at 10 and they did a urine test and drew some blood and both came back normal. The doc said she wanted to do a culture on them to see if they grew any bacteria, but that it would take up to 24-36 hours before they knew anything. In the mean time she wanted us to go up to Primary Children's to have him looked at. We got up there around 3 pm and were checked into a room in the infant unit. They got him hooked up to an IV and drew some more blood, and also took some spinal fluid from his shunt so they could test it to make sure there wasn't any bacteria growing. They told us that it could be anything from spinal meningitis to a UTI. They came back with the results and said that his white blood cell count was high and he had high protein in his spinal fluid, but there was no sign of infection anywhere. They wanted to keep us there for a couple days while the got the results from the culture on his urine. So after 2 and a half days, 13 pokes, a CT scan, and an MRI the result came down to a urinary tract infection. All that testing for a UTI...are you kidding me...don't get me wrong, I'm very grateful that they did everything to rule out anything major, but my poor baby boy went through a lot for just a UTI. He was a trooper though, he was such a happy guy through it all.

 This is what he thinks about this place!

And happy to be home!!