The best laid plans...

So, the boys and I were planning on heading to Grandmas to help out and just spend some sweet time with her. She is doing much better, but was a little nervous about being alone. So, last weekend, I ran around town like a crazy person, trying to get everything done for a 12 hour road trip with three boys. We were planning on leaving on Tuesday.

Monday arrives and Caleb has a fever. I'm not the type of Mom who rushes to the Doctor for every sniffle, but I figured we had better figure out what was going on. The appointment took a few minutes and we filled a prescrition for an antibiotic and headed home. Tuesday the fever was still here and we were giving him tylenol/motrin every four hours. His fever would not go below 103 even with the medicine. Tuesday evening his fever went to 106 and I decided that an emergency room visit was in order. After several hours,IV's and Xrays it turns out the little guy has pnemonia.

We went home and he went in for a check up on Thursday. Still running a fever, still miserable. The Doctor did not seem overly concerned. Just said it would have to run it's course. Friday, Calebs nose started running in a way that I did not know the human nose could. It was actually POURING out of his little nose. He started drooling and would not drink anything. (He also had not really eaten since Monday. ) Saturday morning Caleb came into our room at about 4 AM. We pulled him in bed with us, he was burning up. He stayed in our bed motionless until 10:30 am. I made an appointment for him at the urgent care center at Childrens Hospital.

We headed down to the urgent care center. My neighbors watched the other two boys until my wonderful friend Jasmine could get to our house to take the boys home with her for the night. The Doctors at the urgent care center were really concerned over little Caleb. They found a HUGE abcess on the roof of his mouth (which explains the drooling) They were afraid that he may have abcesses throughout his sinuses, so they did a CT scan as well as X-rays to check on the pnemonia. They gave him IV antibiotics and steroids as well as fluids. They were going to admit us, but the had given him all the medicine they could and figured he would sleep better at home. So, they gave him Tylenol with Codine and sent us home for the night. We had to go back in the morning for more medicine etc.

THANKFULLY, the medicine has seemed to work. He's still not "better", but he's much improved. What a crazy week. I'm exhausted!