Waiting...

Donald has had a low grade fever for a couple of days. Yesterday afternoon I noticed his soft spot was swollen and I called our nurse hotline. The RN I spoke with said, "Page your Dr. and if he doesn't answer in 30 minutes go to the ER." I called the Dr. and told them I would be coming in that evening around 7. At the Dr's office I was told to take him to Primary Children's Medical Center ER for a lumbar puncture or spinal tap.

It was 8:30 p.m. before Dan and I were able to head to the hospital. Thankfully our neighbor, Meredith, came to sit with our kids. There are angels in this world! At the ER we waited...an hour and a half later we were put in a room and there we did a lot more waiting. They decided not to do the spinal tap because it doesn't seem like Donald has meningitis. Instead they did a CT scan to make sure he doesn't have any blockages in his spine. It wasn't horrible because Donald was very calm. Then we waited some more for results. The Dr. came in and said they have no idea why he has excess fluid on his brain but he does have an ear infection so he said he'd give us a prescription for that. We waited another hour to be told we could leave by a discharge nurse. We didn't get home until 2 a.m.

Hopefully the fluid will go away as will the fever and fussiness, so here we are again, waiting...