Crazy Times

Well we've been on the go. We went to Nashville last week and spent some time with my parents and my dad's family on Easter. It was nice. The boys had fun. Sunday night when we got back to my parents' house, Walker developed a fever but seemed fine. I gave him some Motrin and put him to bed. He was up that night from 11:30 to 3:30 with a high fever. He continued the fever and chills the next morning with a strange breathing pattern, so I called the dr and got him an appt that afternoon. We left Nashville and went straight to the dr. in Birmingham. They did bloodwork and found his white count very high, so they did a chest x-ray and found nothing. So they gave him a strong shot of antibiotics and a prescription for more. That night he slept a bit better but still woke with fever, chills and then vomiting and wouldn't take any meds to keep his fever down so it was running around 104. He was miserable and just slept in my arms. I took him back in to the dr. that afternoon and his white count was still really high which was abnormal after an antibiotic shot like they gave him. So the dr. sent me to Children's Hospital so they could run more tests. We were pretty nervous at this point because Dr. Whitaker, our pediatrician, mentioned it could be some form of Meningitis! So we had a bunch of people praying for little Walker. Tony dropped off Jordan at some friends' house (thanks a million Heather!) and met me at the hospital. They catheterized Walker to get a urine sample but still found nothing. The Dr. there came and talked to Tony and I for a while explaining that she still thought it could be viral even with the high whitecount and wanted to wait for 2 or 3 more days before doing any further tests to see if he could get better on his own. She took him off the antibiotics so he could get worse if he did have some sort of bacterial infection and so the antibiotics wouldn't mask anything (because they weren't strong enough to cure it if it was meningitis). They had given him a Tylenol suppository at the Pediatrician office so Walker was starting to feel a bit better with the fever going down by this point. They sent us home and the fever has not returned since - Praise be to God!!! He is a little miracle as his GG says. :)

With a white count as high as he had, it's amazing that the fever just went away and never returned. My poor little guy has been through a lot this week but seems no worse for the wear and is back to his normal happy and demanding self. Thanks to everyone who was praying for him - God is good. :) Here is a picture of Walker from the hospital after he started feeling better.

It's hard to believe but before this picture was taken, he had spent the whole day in my arms practically asleep except for when a dr. was examining him or drawing blood!!