April 7, 2010

What A Day!

Well, we ended up in the ER, but we're home now with some answers.

As I was getting Carter ready for his appointment today, he started to turn a very pale gray color and his lips were very blue. Typically that would mean that his Oxygen levels were low, but according to his monitor he was at 100%.

Then he started crying, and he wouldn't stop which is VERY unlike Carter. We decided that it would be best to take him to the children's hospital, so we started out on the one hour journey. About half-way there, Carter was freaking out so badly that I took him out of his car seat and held him the rest of the way. Anyone who knows me, knows that I'm a freak about car seats, so that should tell you how bad it was. When we got there, he finally fell asleep.

We were fortunate enough to get a Resident Doctor who had done a rotation with the Infectious Diseases team while Carter was in the NICU. He remembered Carter before he'd even come into our room. I don't typically pay much attention to Residents, but this one was on top of it. On our way to the hospital, Michael and I had discussed different things that we thought it might be, and we thought he may have an Urinary Tract Infection. Carter takes a low dose of Septra (an antibiotic) to prevent those since his urine refluxes back into his Kidneys. When he was sick last week, the doctor put him on Amoxicillian and told me to hold off on the Septra until the Amox. was done. Evidentally the Amox. wasn't strong enough to fight off UTI's because that is exactly what he had. After a respiratory viral panel and chest X-Ray we got the positive on the urine cultures. We're really lucky that we got this particular doctor because he agreed with our theory and tested his urine while the Attending thought it was probably a waste of time and was pushing for something respiratory.

All is good. We're home now, and he's sleeping peacefully.

8 comments:

Lacey said...

yeah for answers! I wonder who the resident was, do you remember his name?

Sherry C said...

wow that sounds very scary. I'm glad your home with the little guy safe and sound.

Team Carter Jay said...

Lacey, I think his name was Andrew Rose. I'm not sure how much longer he's there, but he was really good.

Gretchen said...

Wow, what a scare! You and Mike are always so good to be on top of everything. You guys are awesome parents! We will be praying for Carter.

Kristin said...

A bit scary - way to go with the mommy instinct!

Colleen said...

I'm so glad to get more info about Carter's day. Autumn used to have reflux of the urine and she scared us to death with a 105 degree fever. Luckily she outgrew the reflux and didn't have to have surgery. So glad you are home!

ANewKindOfPerfect said...

I'm so glad it was a UTI and nothing more serious! Moms usually know these things. Peanut's UTI's usually present with no fever. Just funky urine and grumpiness. I used to have to convince the Dr to run a UA, but now they know to trust my instincts.

I hope his infection clears up quickly so he can get back to baseline!

Kelli said...

So happy to hear that Carter is home and doing much better! Sending hugs your way!