The Saga Continues

Took Eddie to the Dr. on Friday--he was running a high fever (101-102 and higher) since Thurs. with no sign of improvement and his demeanor was pretty rough. Long story short--Eddie was the show and tell of the Dr's office. Even the triage nurse whom I spoke with on the phone came back to see him for herself. We were ushered in the back door after walking up 6 flights of stairs (our choice). All the nurses wanted to get a look at him and the Dr. (B. Sullivan) said it was a lot of leisons.

The Dr. (whom we love), was with us for 30 min. or more. He looked Eddie over and over. When Dennis asked, he said it was a moderate to severe case. He checked for the secondary infections they worry about--pneumonia, etc. To give you an idea, he says to me, as we're dressing Eddie, "you know, you could always bring him in next week to get the leisons checked out and make sure nothing is infected". Trying not to be too alarmed that the Dr. is this worried, and at the same time, jump right on that, I replied, "if you think we should", and with all seriousness, he said, "yes, I do, I'd like to see you next Monday/Tue.". This is a man, who has such a calm, understated, as Dennis says, un-alramist demeanor.

He gave Eddie the same "wonder" drug I got--to make me drowsy and stop the itching. Unfortunately, it's not working as well for Eddie. I'm going to call and see if we can up the dosage. We've taken to mixing the meds with his formula/pedialyte because he vomited when I tried to give it to him, then vomited again 30 min. after our 2nd try. Had to call the Dr. to find out if we could give it again.

Once more brain cells are firing, I will attach a picture of little Eddie. He's been quite the trooper, but is clearly miserable. At the moment, Dennis and I are pulling shift work. I took the first shift and now is my shift to sleep, but this is kind of my therapy now (writing this), so had to get it down. What a wretched experience. All I could think of last night, was 'who cares about the scaring, lets just get him through this quickly and safely'. We're having a hard time keeping him from scratching.

I'll try to write an update later, if anyone knows a way for us to trade places with him, let us know! By the way, the picture currently up on the previous post, shows a fraction of his leisons, there are probably conservatively, twice that many on his face. currently