Last week was an eventful week for Max, as he was hospitalized for 3 days. We found him with a 101.5 fever on Sunday morning, and off to the ER we went. We ended in the ER for 10 hours as they needed to collect urine, blood, spinal fluid from him in order to grow cultures to check for any bacteria infections. They also needed to put in an IV to administer antibiotics in case he did have bacteria infections. We were told that is the protocol for any infants who have fever above 100.4. After 10 hours in the ER, we were admitted to the floor, there he was getting antibiotics every 6 hours as he was being treated as if he had infection until the 48 hour culture report indicates otherwise. Luckily after 48 hours, none of the cultures showed anything, and we were discharged at around 8pm on Tuesday evening. It was so hard seeing him being stuck so many times by no less than 10 doctors/nurses/residents in the ER all trying to get the specimens and place the IV. I mean it was horrible, why can’t they just send in the best person in the first place rather than have 10 people try and try and fail. In the end, it was the attending ER physician who placed the IV and got the spinal tab, but that wasn’t done until 5 nurses, 1 fellow, 1 resident tried and failed. It was another doctor of NICU who finally drew blood from him after god knows how many people before her tried and failed. Anyhow, finally on Thursday, Max was fever free and since coming home, I have been limiting direct contact between him and Jake, and also having no visitors to see him since we still don’t how he got sick in the first place. That is for now, here is a picture of Max in the ER, poor baby, and another one after a bath.
