December 28, 2005
December 28, 2005 | Updates
Normally, I only post on Sundays. But I did say that I would post if anything important happened. So I’m making an exception tonight. Samuel has a cold. It was a late Christmas gift from his 6 year old brother. It came with a fever, a cough, congestion, diarrhea and an upset stomach. Not his favorite gift this year.Anyway, Samuel was up much of the night because of the cold and he and I fought to break his fever of about 102. After a few hours and a bunch of motrin and tylenol, it came down. But I kept him on the motrin and tylenol just in case to keep the fever at bay.
All of today, Samuel was very, very agitated. And he couldn’t be calmed or consoled. Tom finally suggested that we take him to the doctor, so around 6 pm, we did. On the way to the doctor’s office, Samuel became more agitated than I have seen him in months and months. In the 20 minute ride there, he chewed up both his checks, his bottom lip, one side of his tongue and he chipped off more than half of one of his bottom teeth. Yes, you heard right. He looks like a 6 year old who just started loosing his teeth because one of the teeth right in the middle of the bottom of his jaw is now mostly missing! I bawled over that one!
When we finally arrived at the doctor’s office, we asked them to give something to calm him since I hadn’t brought anything with me. (STUPID, HUH?!) But his next meds weren’t due until 9 pm, so I hadn’t thought of it. Well, the didn’t really have anything in the doctor’s office, so we hurried down the hall to the ER. There they gave him 2 doses of versed, which after about 40 minutes finally put him to sleep. They then listened to his lungs and though they didn’t hear much, opted to put him on antibiotics just in case. His ears and throat also looked fine. After a 20 minute nap, Samuel was back up and agitated, though not quite a bad as before. So we packed up and headed home.
It took a 1/2 dose of clonadine and a 1/2 dose of ambien to finally get Samuel to sleep around 10:30 pm. He is still sleeping, but his apnea is pretty bad - probably because he’s had so much medication in the last few hours. He is on 3/4 of a liter of oxygen and he is still statting down around 90. (Normally, on 1/8 of a liter, he stats around 95-98.) He also had a fever of 101 despite alternating doses of motrin and tylenol for nearly the last 24 hours. We have started his antibiotics.
So, hopefully, he will have a peaceful night and things will calm down QUICKLY! I’ll write again Sunday unless anything changes. If you don’t hear from me, you can assume that he is slowly feeling better and we are getting on a happier track!
Pray hard that he can be peaceful, calm and happy!
Love,
The Jewkes
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