Seany's hospital adventure

Wednesday morning, it snowed. After taking Alex to school, the little ones played for about 30 minutes out in the inch high drift. They stomped, they tossed, they basically had a ball in the first snow.

When we got in the house, Seany pooped. And I gave the three a bath. I then dressed Andrew and Ryan because Seany was lying on my bed crying. I came over to him and he wouldn't settle. I dressed him and he started screaming "OWIE OWIE OWIE!"

After 15 minutes of this, I called his doctor's office and the nurse said he should be seen. I dropped the other two off at their respective preschools and we headed in. Just before we got to the exit, Seany (who'd been screaming all this time) turned white as a sheet (lips, eyelids, everything) and started to fall asleep/pass out -- eyes rolling back. I was afraid he'd stop breathing so I wouldn't let him sleep.

By the time we got to the doctor he was so lethargic he went straight to get an xray. To make sure his organs were all normal and he hadn't swallowed something. Soon after we went up to the pediatrics ward to be admitted. He screamed every so often but basically laid perfectly still, so lethargic. He also got a ct-scan, blood tests, and mucus tests. Everything was negative or normal except he had a very very very elevated white cell count.

After a day of iv fluids and antibiotics he had some color and energy. By today, 2 days of iv fluids and antibiotics he's feeling normal. He's blood cultures never developed any bacterial infections. The diagnosis is that he had an unknown gastro/intestenial virus with sudden onset that basically stressed his system out of whack. He'll need a couple more days to recover. But he should be able to stay out of the hospital now.